What was the Tonkin Gulf incident?

Answer 1

President Johnson acted before all the facts became known.(APEX)

Answer 2

my answer was:

All of the above

-It gave president johnson power to respond against attacks on the united states forces

-it was passed by congress based on incorrect information about attacks on united states forces

-it allowed the bombing of north Vietnam to begin

Answer 3

it caused president Johnson to send more troop to Vietnam

Answer 4

the US sent more troops to Vietnam

Answer 5

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident is the event that made the United States declare war against North Vietnam. In 1964, an American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin was hit by a torpedo by North Vietnamese forces. Two days later, the ship reported that it was hit a second time by a torpedo (in fact, it was not hit by a torpedo the second time; there was simply a mistake in the radar transmission). President Johnson used these events as an excuse to allow American troops to be sent to engage in war against North Vietnam.

Answer 6

The alleged attack by the North Vietnamese on the destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy on 2 and 4 August of 1964 which led to the increased American involvement in the Vietnam War. The Gulf of Tonkin is actually part of the South China Sea, which is actually part of the Pacific Ocean. The South China Sea (part of the Pacific Ocean) is between Vietnam and the Philippines. The Gulf of Tonkin is a portion of the South China Sea that dead ends (north) into the land mass where Red China & North Vietnam border each other. Looking at a map, without Hainan Island in the way, it would form the shape of a horse shoe, or a bay. With Hainan Island it could look like the shape of the neck & head of a bird or other animal. And of course if was a bay, it would be a large one, about the size of the state of Georgia.

Answer 7

Similar to the "Java Sea Affair" in 1942. The Battle of the Java Sea was the largest cruiser surface fleet action of WWII.

The "Tonkin Gulf" Affair was a surface engagement between Torpedo Boats of the North Viet Navy's 135th TB Squadron and the destroyer USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Answer 8

The Golf of Tonkin incident was a US lie used to escalate the Vietnam war. It is admitted in declassified documents that the incident never happened.

1964 - President Johnson and top U.S. officials chose to believe that North Vietnam had attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, even though the highly classified signals intercepts they cited to each other actually described a naval clash two days earlier (a battle prompted by covert U.S. attacks on North Vietnam).

Answer 9

Fact: On August 2, 1964 P4 torpedo boats from the North Vietnamese Navy's 135th Torpedo Boat Squadron attacked with torpedoes and machine guns the US Navy destroyer USS Maddox in the Tonking Gulf. Maddox returned fire with her 5" guns, reporting one enemy vessel destroyed.

Fact: On August 4, 1964, there were reports of more vessels near the US ships. This may have been a radar malfunction. This is the so called "incident" that started the confusion. People focused on this attack and not on the actual naval battle of August 2nd.

It was on the basis of the second, unproven attack on August 4 that President Johnson secured from Congress the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving him the power to escalate U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.

Answer 10

President Lyndon Johnson used the Gulf of Tonkin incident to widen the war.