President John Adams created the United States Department of the Navy __________. A)because of the difficulties the United State
s experienced with French and British navies B)to establish better trade with Spain C)because he needed a lasting legacy of his presidency D)to expand the United States' control over territorial waters
President John Adams created the United States Department of the Navy "<span>D)to expand the United States' control over territorial waters". The US needed ships to protect US shipping overseas and to protect its coastline. </span>
At the heart of the conflict was the desire of North Vietnam, which had defeated the French colonial administration of Vietnam in 1954, to unify the entire country under a single communist regime modeled after those of the Soviet Union and China
