Modern Era · Southeast Asia · War
1964
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
August 7, 1964
After murky reports of a North Vietnamese attack on a US destroyer, Congress gave Lyndon Johnson a blank check to use military force in Southeast Asia. Within a year American combat troops were pouring into Vietnam. The resolution passed the House unanimously. The war it authorized would become the great division of a generation.
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Also in 1964 (6 other events on record)
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