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Parent topics
- Vietnam War [r]: (1955-1975) war that killed 3.8 million people, where North Vietnam fought U.S. forces and eventually took over South Vietnam, forming a single Communist country, Vietnam. [e]
- Vietnam, war, and the United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- DESOTO patrol [r]: A code name for operations of U.S. destroyers, in international waters off the Chinese and Vietnamese coasts in the early to mid 1960s, carrying signals intelligence sensors and technicians [e]
- Gulf of Tonkin resolution [r]: The legislative justification, in response on a Presidential appeal based on questionable evidence, which provided the fundamental authority for large-scale United States combat in the Vietnam War [e]
- Fast attack craft [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lyndon B. Johnson [r]: American politician (1908-1973); president 1963–1969; known for his civil rights bills and "The Great Society". [e]
- Robert McNamara [r]: A specialist in quantitative management who became president of the Ford Motor Company, but was quickly nominated as Secretary of Defense, becoming a major architect of policy, especially for the Vietnam War, in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations. [e]