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The war escalated at an extreme rate after 1965 due to the following; after congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, Lyndon Johnson had the full power of the American military at his disposal to send to Vietnam and with this massive increase in troops he also began Operation Rolling Thunder. Operation Rolling Thunder involved bombing North Vietnam until Ho Chi Minh ended the insurgency in the south. This did not occur, Johnson then sent a further 145 000 ground troops on search and destroy missions throughout the Vietnamese jungle.
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∙ 9y agoThe war in Vietnam was escalated under president Johnson. This is because the USA was committed to the policy of "containing communism".
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