Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964 · Event
Congress passes the resolution (signed into law on 10 August) authorising Johnson to use force in Southeast Asia without a declaration of war.
On these timelines: Cold War, Master, The Vietnam War, Southeast Asia
More from Cold War
- Solidarity movement in Poland (1980)
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989)
- Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
- Helsinki Accords (1975)
- Henry Kissinger (1923)
- Truman Doctrine (1947)
- Long Telegram (1946)
- Iron Curtain speech (1946)
Around 1964
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)