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The gulf of tonkin resolution issued by congress on august 7, 1964, was instrumental in increasing u. s. activity in

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The incident in the Gulf of Tonkin involved an attack and an alleged attack on US destroyers by North Vietnamese forces in August, 1964. On August 2, the USS Maddox was pursued by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. The Maddox fired warning shots, and the North Vietnamese then attacked with torpedoes and machine gun fire. The US suffered only minor and no casualties; the North Vietnamese boats were damaged and they suffered several casualties. On August 4, there was a report of a second Tonkin Gulf incident was alleged, but this later was revealed as a false report. Nevertheless, the American public was told of two attacks and the incidents were used to get Congress to pass the Tonkin Gulf resolution, which gave the President open-ended powers to deploy troops in the military effort in Vietnam.

The resolution had significant consequences for the Vietnam War and beyond that time. In regard to the Vietnam War, it provided the justification for the president, Lyndon Johnson, to escalate US involvement in the war and magnify the number of US troops there by hundreds of thousands. In US foreign policy in general, it represented an increase of the power of the Commander in Chief (the president) to deploy troops without getting formal approval in advance from Congress.

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The Tonkin Bay Resolution (August 7, 1964) provided extensive congressional approval for the extension of the Vietnam War.

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The Tonkin Bay Incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ), also known as the USS Maddox Incident, caused two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of Tonkin Bay. The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents but ended up being very controversial with widespread claims that one or both incidents were false and possibly deliberate. The result of these two incidents was the ratification of the Tonkin Bay Resolution by Congress, which gave President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered threatened by "communist aggression". This resolution serves as a legal justification for Johnson to mobilize conventional US forces and start an open war against North Vietnam.

The Vietnam War, also called the Second Indochina War, was a war that took place between 1957 and 1975 in Vietnam. This war is part of the Cold War between two great ideological camps, namely the Communists and SEATO.

Two warring camps are the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). The United States, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines (whose military assistance is by Taiwan and Spain) are allied with South Vietnam, while the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Mongolia, and Cuba support communist ideology North Vietnam. The death toll is estimated at more than 280,000 in South Vietnam and more than 1,000,000 in North Vietnam. This war resulted in a massive exodus of Vietnamese citizens to other countries, especially the United States, Australia, and other Western countries, so that in these countries a fairly large Vietnamese community could be found.

After the end of this war, the two Vietnamese were united in 1976 and Vietnam became a communist country.

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