Gulf Of Tonkin Case Study

Was Congress correct in approving the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? 1964 saw the United States enter into one of the longest war it had ever been involved in, up until that point the war was known as the Vietnam War. The then President of the United States Lyndon Johnson had campaigned vastly with the deception that he had become a person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable. However, he later accepted the view that the war was unavoidable for the United States to be involved in due to the case in the Gulf of Tonkin. Therefore, without any form of proof or belief around the matter the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a sure explanation or excuse for the implementation of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. So, immediately Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution they gave President Johnson access to full military power, which went ahead to propel the United States into a rather long,

It was a perception that was widely accepted in the United States particularly in the years that led to the Vietnamese War. Vietnam was divided into North and South with North Vietnam being a communist population and South Vietnam a capitalist population that hoped for a democratic system of government and the consequent reunion with the North part. Though President Lyndon Johnson held the view that it was the responsibility of the United States to stop the war and crush communism before it extended to Southeast Asia, he, however, lacked any good motivation to join the war; in spite of everything, North Vietnam had not offended the United States openly or directly. Therefore, North Vietnam continued to send streams of soldiers against the South Vietnam part to transform South Vietnam to communism. The United States, on the other hand, had no option but to observe these occurrences from across the ocean in