Geneva Conference

• geneva accord: the USA took part in the geneva accords and agreed to the dividing up of vietnam
• the domino effect or chain reaction is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a chain of simila events.
• the term is best known as a mechanical effect and is used as an analogy to a falling row of dominoes.

• geneva accord: the USA took part in the geneva accords and agreed to the dividing up of vietnam
• the domino effect or chain reaction is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a chain of simila events.
• the term is best known as a mechanical effect and is used as an analogy to a falling row of dominoes.

2nd august

• northvietnamese torpedo boats attack US warship USS Maddox
• it was hit by a torpedo that dd not explode
• USS Maddox fires the torpedo boats
• US fighter planes sink one torpedo boat and damage 2 more

4th august

• USS Maddox and USS Turner joy report that they had been fired upon and attacked by torpedo boats
• later reported that no sailor on boared ship or fiighter piolet in the air saw any evidence of the second attack
• johnson ordered air force to attack north vietnamese gun boat bases.