President Johnson escalated the Vietnam War in response to the "<span>(B) Second Gulf of Tonkin incident," since this proved that a "lackluster" United States presence was not working, and that more force needed to be used. </span>
The correct answer is <span>They fled to escape persecution from government soldiers.
In the paragraph, they explain that they fled because the soldiers were racketeering them. They would expect the locals to give them goods in the form of rubber or something else and if they couldn't provide they would get killed by the soldiers so they fled out of fear for their lives. The other possible answers don't fit the description in the excerpt.</span>
Answer: Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism.”
Explanation:
It had become clear that isolationism could not put the country out of war as whatever happened abroad always came to haunt them locally. Examples such as the war of 1812, and the world war 1 were a perfect example of how isolationsim as apolicy could not gurantee world peace and hence, the UN as an intsrument that would enforce this peace was imperative.