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Identify and analyze the significant foreign policy events surrounding the Vietnam War

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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed President Johnson to send 500,000 American troops to Vietnam. This was passed by Congress with only 3 no votes in the House and Senate.

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The leading reason as to why we went to war in Vietnam was to counter the "domino effect" where a non-communist country who borders a communist country had a high chance of becoming communist.
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