Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

A war with similar causes to the Korean War was the Vietnam War. Similarly, the causes of the Vietnam War found its roots at the end of World War II. At that time the Japanese occupied a French colony, Indonesia. With the collapse of the colonial governments such as in Africa, the Pacific, and Asia the United States was at odds in keeping up with the spread of communism. In 1941 the Viet Minh, a Vietnamese National movement formed by Ho Chi Minh, resisted the occupants in Indonesia.…

Privilege is a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular group of people. The United States is what most people would consider a very privileged people. However, most of us do not think that is so. That is because we do not get what we want the moment we ask it. If only we could really see how privileged we are because other people in this world suffer so much. Like the quote that says if the whole world will throw away all their problems into one pile…

The Lasting Impacts of the Cold War After WWII, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two world superpowers. The two nations held great influence, “restructuring the international system into a bipolar world” (Kaufman, 2010, #77). The United States offered democracy and capitalism, while the Soviet Union represented the new economic system of communism. The two conflicting ideologies represented different international world orders. The United States and the Soviet Union’s…

I’m doing my Primary Source Paper on the Vietnam war. The Vietnam war was one of the most controversial wars America has ever been in. It had three other names it was known as; the second Indochina war, resistance war against America, and the American war. The war started November 1 1955 and ended on April 30 1975. It was during the cold war era that happened in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The first Indochina war occurred from 1946-1954 and was between North and South Vietnam. The Soviet Union…

containment plan and called it "flexible response". 1965, President Lyndon Johnson had to deal with increased opposition as a result of Operation Rolling Thunder, an expanded U.S. bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese. 1968 following the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution LBJ drastically escalated American involvement in Vietnam from 16,000 advisors and soldiers to 550,000 combat troops in 1968. Making this officially into what would be known as Johnson 's War. This war would not only dominate…

DRV attacked two ships of the United States. The Johnson administration was trying to get powers for the president to declare war. The government knew that they were in so deep that they could not come out. The House and Senate passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave more powers to the Johnson Administration, with only two opposing votes. The Joint Chiefs of Staff urged to air raid the DRV and stabilize the uprising in Saigon. Many people in the White House opposed this idea. It was…

The origins of the Cold War are basically the United Staes against the Soviet Union, capitalism verse communism. The United States and the Soviet Union have ideological differences, they believing in running the government different ways. America believes in a democracy basically a free market government. On the other hand, Russians believe in communism basically a dictatorship. George Kennan is most famously known for the “Long Telegram”, he lives in russia at the time and sends a telegram back…

In the early to mid-1900s, after the end of World War II, the communist North Vietnamese government with the aid of their guerrilla allies within the boundaries of South Vietnam waged war against the South Vietnamese leadership and the French. Seeing the ongoing fight for the French and South Vietnamese, the powerful United States provided assistance in support of their allies, but limited their involvement to supplying equipment and personnel support in efforts to fight off the advances of the…

end. Having produced a lot of resources such as rice, the colonial government (French), and the Japanese had the idea of taking advantage of this. According to (Anderson, David, 10), the United States originally got involved was because of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Vietnam Ships attacked the USS Maddox and used it as the reason to get involved in the war in Vietnam. This resulted to imbalances in the economy, leading to industrial balances. History was made in America, the U.S.A's economy was…

in the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam was divided north and south also. The north was Communist and the south was Democratic. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, his Vice President, Lyndon Johnson, took over. He asked Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. It stated that it gave the president full war time powers without declaring war. This also makes the Vietnam War not a war, but a “police action”. The United States was going to fight two different North Vietnamese sides. The first one…