The Gulf of Tonkin incident:?

Question

The Gulf of Tonkin incident :
A) turned public opinion against the war in Vietnam.
B) led Congress to reduce the president's role in waging war in Vietnam.
C) increased the level of public support for the Vietnam War.
D) was clearly a provocation by the North Vietnamese.








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Answer 1

None of the above.
It gave the President the power to" take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom."

Answer 2

The Tonkin Gulf incident was a hoax orchestrated by the US government as a pretext to engage US military forces against North Vietnam. The Vietnam War served 2 major purposes: 1. The military-industrial complex, financed by international bankers, made billions and billions of dollars off the war. 2. The US military was decimated, its morale destoyed, and it has never really recovered from its debacle in Vietnam. I firmly believe the same people in the US government, and the international bankers, engineered 9-11 to convince the American people to adopt the principal of preemptive war against our "so-called Muslim and Arab enemies." The US is on the slippery slope of defeat and will soon become a 2nd or 3rd rate world power, to be replaced by China and Russia.

Answer 3

C... kind of.
The public did not know that we were at war when the Tonkin Gulf Incident 'occurred', and since it has been discovered that it did not so much occur as was faked to provoke the public into authorizing the start of the war.