The Tonkin Gulf Resolution: when America Dove Deeper into Vietnam
Words: 443 1410Back in August 1964, the U.S. Congress made a move that would crank up the intensity of the Vietnam War to levels nobody was ready for. They passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, a decision that pretty much handed President Lyndon B. Johnson a blank check to beef up U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, all without officially declaring war. This was all sparked by two supposed attacks on U.S. ships by North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin. But as […]