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Idea where if one country came under influnce of communism, the surrounding countries will also fall into communism.
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Seperated Vietnam into North and the South.
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North Vietnamese fired at one of the United States boat that was near the Gulf of Tonkin. It enabled President Johnson make military decisions without declare war.
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The first sustained bombing of North Vietnam.
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Vietcong troups attacking nearly every metropolitan center on a Buddhist holiday.
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Lieutenant William Calley Jr. ordered his troups to kill innocient civilians living in My Lai.
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Daniel Ellsberg believed that the American public should know about the government involvement in Vietnam. He published top-secret overview in the New York Times.
