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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution (7 Aug. 1964) A resolution of the US
Congress approving ‘retaliatory’ air raids on North Vietnamese targets and giving President
Johnson authority to ‘take all necessary steps including the use of armed forces’ to help members of
SEATO to ‘defend their freedom’. It was passed in response to alleged attacks on 2 and 4 August by North Vietnamese patrol boats against the US destroyer
Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin. Subsequent investigation revealed that the intelligence information on which it was based was inaccurate, and may have been contrived by elements within the US government. Nevertheless, it was effectively a blank cheque for Johnson's policies in Vietnam, and thus enabled the start of active US military involvement in the
Vietnam War through retaliatory bombing raids of North Vietnamese cities. Reaction against this mistake by Congress led to the
War Powers Act of 1973.
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Gulf of Tonkin crisis serves as a lesson for today
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
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Profile: Remembering the Gulf of Tonkin incident 40 years later
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Analysis: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution results in deeper US involvement in Vietnam
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Gulf of Tonkin Attack Compared to Iraq
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
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Tonkin Gulf resolution
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Gulf of Tonkin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gulf of Tonkin NW arm of the South China Sea, c.300 mi...against U.S. naval forces stationed in the gulf led to increased U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (see Tonkin Gulf Resolution ).
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