USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lyndon Johnson signed the Tonkin Gulf resolution on August 10, 1964. In August 1964, Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf resolution-or Southeast Asia Resolution, as it is officially known-the congressional decree that gave President Lyndon Johnson a broad mandate to wage war in Vietnam.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The resolution was prompted by two separate attacks on two U.S. Navy destroyers, U.S.S. Maddox and U.S.S. Turner Joy, which allegedly occurred on August 2 and August 4, 1964, respectively.