... was started externally by the United States. "In August 1964, on the pretext of a North Vietnamese attack on U.S naval craft off the North Vietnamese coast, Johnson ordered air attacks on communist military instalments along the northern coast" Vietnam commenced under the shadow of Koreas failure, the presidents reigning during this period feared the political views which may have been taken had they ... ...

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... party in 1930 and president from 1945 -69 of the democratic republic of Vietnam. Gulf of Tonkin incident- is the body of water that lies on the east coast of n. Vietnam and the west coast of the island hainan. This was the waters for the staging area of the U.S. seventh fleet. Eventually led to the escalation and official documentation of U.S. involvement in ... ...

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... to the early end to the war. President Johnson became president after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. In August, 1964 the USS Maddox was on maneuvers off the coast of North Viet Nam when ˜allegedly' is was fired upon by several torpedo boats that had been stalking it in the Gulf of Tonkin. A second attack was reported several ... ...

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... top-secret, covert attacks against North Vietnamese territory, including commando raids against bridges, railways, and coastal installations. Johnson also ordered the U.S. Navy to conduct surveillance missions along the North Vietnamese coast. He increased the secret bombing of territory in Laos along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a growing network of paths and roads used by the North Vietnamese to transport supplies into ... ...

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... then they could have accomplished both of their goals. During WWII Germany had control of a puppet state of France called Vicci, this enabled Japan to build military bases along the coast of Vietnam which was a French colony. At this time, the United States only goal was to get rid of these military bases. They backed the leader of the Viet Minh ... ...

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