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    The Gulf of Tonkin is a gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and South China....
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    The Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ) was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in...
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    The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, enacted August 10, 1964...
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  • Tây) Provinces of China; east of northern Laos and west of the Gulf of Tonkin. Having the fertile delta area of the Red River, Tonkin is rich in rice...
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    DESOTO patrol (category Destroyers of the United States Navy)
    patrol off the coast of China in April 1962. The USS Agerholm carried out the first patrol to target North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin in December 1962...
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    Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club was a tongue-in-cheek nickname for the United States Seventh Fleet during the Vietnam War. Throughout the War in Vietnam, the Seventh...
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    Vietnam War (redirect from War of vietnam)
    000 military advisors in 1959 to 23,000 by 1964.: 131  Following the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, the US Congress passed a resolution that gave President...
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  • Operation 34A (category Campaigns of the Vietnam War)
    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution) on 7 August 1964, leading to a dramatic escalation of the Vietnam War. It has since been alleged that the Gulf of Tonkin Incident...
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    Wikidata Q108903453. Edwin E. Moïse (1996). Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2300-2...
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    USS Maddox (DD-731) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    skirmish with North Vietnamese torpedo boats, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and increased U.S. involvement in the...
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    USS Turner Joy (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    participated extensively in the Vietnam War, and was one of the principal ships involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Decommissioned in 1982, she is now a museum...
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    and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which led to a major US escalation of its involvement. Vietnamese communists saw this as a second phase of their revolution...
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  • August 1964 - Gulf of Tonkin incident: USS Maddox is allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin (the attack is...
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    Marquis de Morès (category Marquesses of Morès)
    Vietnam, from the Chinese frontier to the Gulf of Tonkin, and arrived in Asia to lead construction in the fall of 1888. He observed the Vietnamese people...
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    James Stockdale (category Recipients of the Legion of Merit)
    USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) during the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. On his next deployment, while commander of Carrier Air Wing Sixteen aboard the carrier...
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    Maddox DD-731]. The misinterpreted incident took place in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam. President Johnson used the flawed information...
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    Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (category Military history of the United States during the Vietnam War)
    participated in most of the significant campaigns of the Vietnam War, including the Gulf of Tonkin incident which precipitated increased American involvement...
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    Solomon Sea South China Sea Gulf of Tonkin Qiongzhou Strait Natuna Sea North Natuna Sea West Philippine Sea South Seas Gulf of Tonkin Sulu Sea Tasman Sea Tokyo...
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  • Delimitation in the Gulf of Tonkin. In international politics, the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (Office of Legal Affairs, United...
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    low-altitude Alpha orbit over the Gulf of Tonkin, with Frog 02 as a backup. The 17-man crews were advised in the air of the nature of the rescue mission and their...
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    Gulf of Aqaba (Arabic: خَلِيج الْعَقَبَة, romanized: Khalīj al-ʿAqaba) or Gulf of Eilat (Hebrew: מפרץ אילת, romanized: Mifrátz Eilát) is a large gulf...
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  • Casus belli (redirect from Case of war)
    military action even without a formal declaration of war (as in: the lead up to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution). In formally articulating a casus belli...
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  • War's Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which led to direct open warfare between the nation of North Vietnam and the United States on 7 August 1964 (Tonkin Gulf Resolution)...
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    boats attacked the destroyer USS Maddox in what became known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. The second attack, which the United States claimed to have...
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  • Chinese: 環北部灣經濟圈; pinyin: Huán Běi bù wān jīng jì quān) also known as Gulf of Tonkin Economic Belt in (Vietnamese: Vành đai kinh tế vịnh Bắc Bộ) defines...
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    Robert McNamara (category Recipients of the Legion of Merit)
    McNamara presided over a build-up of U.S. soldiers in South Vietnam. After the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, the number of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam escalated...
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  • August 4 (redirect from 4th of August)
    – Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy mistakenly report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. 1965 – The...
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    The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent...
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  • French protectorate of Tonkin, the northern part of French Indochina Gulf of Tonkin, a gulf in the South China Sea Gulf of Tonkin incident, a 1964 naval...
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    Australasian Mediterranean Sea (category Articles using infobox body of water without alt)
    - 200,000 km2 Gulf of Tonkin - 126,250 km2 Halmahera Sea - 95,000 km2 Bali Sea - 45,000 km2 Savu Sea - 35,000 km2 Joseph Bonaparte Gulf - 26,780 km2 Seram...
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