THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Question
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the U.S. ship Maddox had been the target of an unprovoked attack.
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Lyndon Johnson misled them.
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Congress members wanted to give the president the sole power to declare war.
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Congress members wanted to limit the president’s war-making powers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Congress approved the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1964 because: Lyndon Johnson misled them. Why was the ground in Vietnam so difficult to fight? Civilians often joined the Vietcong and US soldiers often could not identify the enemy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Congress supported the resolution with the assumption that the president would return and seek their support before engaging in additional escalations of the war. The Gulf of Tonkin incident and the subsequent Gulf of Tonkin resolution provided the justification for further U.S. escalation of the conflict in Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lyndon Johnson on August 5, 1964, assertedly in reaction to two allegedly unprovoked attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the destroyers Maddox and C. Turner Joy of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin on August 2 and August 4, respectively.