What Decisions Did Lbj Make And Why From 1964-1965?

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What events in 1964 set the stage for a new phase in the Vietnamese independence?
The big events in Vietnam in 1664 were the Gulf of Tonkin that allowed the U.S to have operations in Vietnam without called to declared war. And the United States bombing the Saigon. In American, President Johnson was re-elected and he look for new course of action in Vietnam. Battle in Vietnam had started to happening and it was a new phase of who's going to be on top at the end of it. Vietnam independence is relying on who win the north Vietnam or the United States.

What decisions did LBJ make and why from 1964-1965?
President Lyndon B. Johnson made the decision to send troops to Vietnam and to bomb the North to stop communism in Vietnam. That decisions is about the outcome of the Vietnam War that the United States was all in this war. Even though the citizen do not like that the U.S was in this war, it did not matter because President Johnson is all in.
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The PLAF hit the U.S military base at Pleiku in 2/7/1965. The base was damaged and President Johnson send a bomb strike, Flaming Dart, at the north Vietnam military based on 17th Parallel. The Rolling Thunder was the bombing campaign of the North Vietnam in February a few days after the attack on Pleiku. The Rolling Thunder provide Saigon the government support from the political and military improvement in the war. In America, the Rolling Thunder sent movement of anti-war and activity. The Rolling Thunder also had an impact on infiltration and it show the U.S will not withdraw from

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