THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Question
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What did the Gulf of Tonkin resolution accomplish?
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to take any measures necessary to repeal an attack
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to stop the spread of communism
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to give aid to Europe
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to begin an airlift to supply a blockaded city
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Gulf of Tonkin Incident occurred in August 1964. North Vietnamese warships purportedly attacked United States warships, the U.S.S. Maddox and the U.S.S. C. Turner Joy, on two separate occasions in the Gulf of Tonkin, a body of water neighboring modern-day Vietnam.
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