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Gulf of Tonkin resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, drew the United States more directly into the Vietnam War. It involved two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin -
Tet Offensive
A surprise attack from the Vietcong fighters with over 80,000 troops emerging from their hiding spots and attacked every single major metropolitan cities in South Korea -
My Lia Massacre
The My Lai Massacre was started by an order from William L. Calley Jr. to have the U.S military open fire on several hundred woman and children in the tiny hamlet of My Lai killing 300-500 people -
Vietnamization
The Plan would be that Nixon would gradually withdraw troops from South East Asia as American military personnel turned more and more of the fighting over to the army of the Republic of Vietnam -
Invasion of Cambodia
The Cambodian Campaign was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. These invasions were a result of the policy of President Richard Nixon. -
Kent State Massacre
The Kent State shootings were the shootings of unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, by members of the Ohio National Guard -
War Powers Act
This Act gave the President the ability to send troops to foreign country's without declaring war and without going through congress
