The civil rights movement had been a growing cause since the 13th, 14th, and amendments were passed in the 19th century. These abolished slavery, provided equal rights under the law, and black suffrage. Now, 100 years later, the issue is still at hand due to systems like the Jim Crow Laws that were...
America's war in Vietnam really started with the Tonkin Gulf incident. It was the first time that America and its forces were truly threatened by the North Vietnamese forces. The USS Maddox was on patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin when it noticed North Vietnamese PT boats. The PT boats wound up firing...
ROLLING THUNDER As you all know, President Johnson was a starch anti-communist and the American people, as a majority, were against the Vietnam war. What this meant was that Johnson had to wait until after the 1964 elections before he could start escalating military actions. In December 1964,...
