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Gulf of Tonkin Incident
On August 2, 1964, the U.S. destroyer Maddox exchanged shots with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. Two days later, the Maddox and another destroyer reported once again coming under fire. Although most historians, including those employed by the U.S. military, have since concluded that the second of those attacks never actually occurred, it served as the pretext for an immediate ramp-up of the Vietnam War. -
My Lai Massacre
On the morning of March 16, 1968, soldiers of Charlie Company, a unit of the America Division's 11th Infantry Brigade arrived in the hamlet of My Lai in the northern part of South Vietnam. -
Pentagon Papers
