JOHNSON'S INCREASED INVOLVEMENT
Mindmap of ways Johnson increased involvement against North Vietnam
- Created by: Het98
- Created on: 22-04-16 11:25
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- Increased Involvement Johnson
- Gulf of Tonkin August 1964
- US warship (USS Maddox) Claimed to have been attacked by North Vietnamese Torpedos
- Congress passed Gulf of Tonkin resolution
- This let Johnson take direct military action
- February 1965
- Viet Cong attacked American airbases and killed American Soldiors
- Johnson declared war against North Vietnamese July 1965
- Viet Cong attacked American airbases and killed American Soldiors
- Operation Rolling Thunder 2nd March 1965
- Programme of bombing of north Vietnam
- Designed to slowly increase intensity
- Against the advice of air staffwho wanted an all out approach (this was effecting in WW2)
- Operation Steel Tiger (April 1965)
- Programme bombing against targets along Ho Chi Minh trail in southern Laos.
- Nepalm
- Developed in the WW2 and used in Korea
- mIxture of gasoline and thickening agents to stick to human skin
- Dropped from fighter-bombers
- Developed in the WW2 and used in Korea
- Defoliates
- January 1962
- US used herbicides to kill trees and plants to expose communist guerrillas
- Most common herbicide was agent orange
- January 1962
- Increase in personnel in South Vietnam
- Johnson took Westmoreland and Macnamara's advice and increased personnel to 125,000
- December 1967
- 485,600 US military personnel
- December 1965
- 184,300 US military personnel
- Search and destroy
- Favoured by Westmoreland
- Gulf of Tonkin August 1964
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