What was the rationale behind the americans use of agent orange in vietnam

Agent Orange, mixture of herbicides that U.S. military forces sprayed in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971 during the Vietnam War for the dual purpose of defoliating forest areas that might conceal Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces and destroying crops that might feed the enemy.

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did you check the study guide?

b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

explanation:

this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do