The Gulf of Tonkin was a resolution passed by the US Congress during the Vietnamese War. Under this resolution, the Congress gave authority to the President Lyndon Johnson to take necessary action to maintain peace internationally.
This resolution allowed the US to take military action in Vietnam and keep hold of the Southeastern country.
The biggest motivation behind the creation of the CCC was to give Americans jobs (because of the great Depression)
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Many Americans morally opposed the war and were outraged by the war's destruction and brutality. Others argued that the conflict was a war against Vietnamese independence or an interference in a foreign civil war, although others rejected it because it lacked specific goals and seemed to be impossible to win.