{"id":3034,"date":"2014-05-20T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2014-04-21T22:01:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T19:01:55","slug":"the-vietnam-war-why-was-the-usa-so-keen-to-prevent-communism-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/the-vietnam-war-why-was-the-usa-so-keen-to-prevent-communism-spreading\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vietnam War &#8211; Why was the USA so keen to prevent communism spreading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jfk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3035\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jfk.jpg\" alt=\"jfk\" width=\"373\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jfk.jpg 373w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jfk-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><a style=\"color: #3b6cc3;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/igcse\/cuba_vietnam\/2_VIETNAM\/1_Why_USA_involved-ENTRANCE-DONE\/1_EntrancePart1.docx\">JFK Speech writing Task Part [1]: Why was the USA so keen to prevent communism spreading?<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Imagine you are a speechwriter for the President Kennedy of the United States. Using your knowledge of the Cold War so far, draft a speech (starting &#8220;Fellow citizens&#8230;&#8221;) justifying Kennedy&#8217;s actions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JFK Speech writing Task Part [1]: Why was the USA so keen to prevent communism spreading? &#8220;Imagine you are a speechwriter for the President Kennedy of the United States. Using your knowledge of the Cold War so far, draft a speech (starting &#8220;Fellow citizens&#8230;&#8221;) justifying Kennedy&#8217;s actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,6,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-MW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}