Vietnam War 1964-1973
Statistics
• 58,148 Americans killed
• Average age 23
• Millions of Vietnamese killed
Walter Cronkite
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• US destroyers were attacked by North Vietnam (US was secretly helping South attack the North)
• Gave President Johnson broad military power
• June of 1965 we had 50,000 troops in Vietnam Robert McNamara
Secretary of Defense
LBJ escalates the War