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