... Vietnam would divert resources from Johnson's ambitious and expensive domestic program, the Great Society. A larger in Vietnam also raised the risk of a military clash with China. Using as a provocation alleged North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. Navy vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964, Johnson authorized limited bombing raids on North Vietnam and secured a resolution from Congress allowing him ... strength was being destroyed faster than it could be replenished. But the communists' Tet offensive launched in January 1968 quickly extinguished the "light at the end of the tunnel"....

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... Vietnam - the civilising mission (mission civilisatrice) - the obligation of advanced peoples of modern civilisation to the primitive peoples of Asia and Africa. This was: "the white man's burden". In August 1858 the French landed at Da Nang and after three and a half years fighting under the goal of "god, gold and glory" forced Tu Duc to sign a treaty reading ... event which led to increased American involvement took place in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964 when a US destroyer was fired on by North Vietnamese patrol boats. This was the green light for Johnson to substantially increas...

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... from collapsing. While the offensive was being planned, there were anti-war demonstrations taking place in the U.S. against the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, General Vo Nguyen Giap of North Vietnam told his political members that the opportunity for a general offensive or uprising was within reach. The offensive began in August of 1967, following Hanoi's decision to proceed with Giap's "uprising," Giap began a ... massive buildup of troops, equipment, and supplies in South Vietnam. First, thousands of guns and munitions were bought southward along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The Ho Chi ... the Off...

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• Grade Level: High School

... of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. The papers represent the most complete secret archives of government decision-making on Indochina. Rarely has a collection of documents similar to these papers come to light in modern history. Included in the papers is McNamara's December 1963 memorandum to President Lyndon B. Johnson summarizing the situation in Vietnam as very disturbing. "Current trends ... , unless reversed in the next 2 ­3 months," he said, "will lead to neutralization at best and more likely to ... and bombardment of North Vietnamese coastal installations by PT-...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Vietnam would divert resources from Johnson's ambitious and expensive domestic program, the Great Society. A larger in Vietnam also raised the risk of a military clash with China. Using as a provocation alleged North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. Navy vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964, Johnson authorized limited bombing raids on North Vietnam and secured a resolution from Congress allowing him ... strength was being destroyed faster than it could be replenished. But the communists' Tet offensive launched in January 1968 quickly extinguished the "light at the end of the tunnel"....

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School