THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Question
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The president declared war.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed.
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France agreed to let the US in.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Immediately after reports of the second attack, Johnson asked the U.S. Congress for permission to defend U.S. forces in Southeast Asia. The Senate passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution with only two opposing votes, and the House of Representatives passed it unanimously.
Detailed explanation-2: -Both houses of Congress passed the resolution on August 7, the House of Representatives by 414 votes to nil, and the Senate by a vote of 88 to 2. The resolution served as the principal constitutional authorization for the subsequent vast escalation of the United States’ military involvement in the Vietnam War.
Detailed explanation-3: -By late May 1964, a rough draft of the resolution that was to become the Gulf of Tonkin resolution had been completed by Bundy which, if passed by Congress, would give Johnson the legal power to use force to defend any nation in Southeast Asia threatened by “Communist aggression or subversion".