Answer:
"Original jurisdiction" cases are rare, with the Court hearing one or two cases each term. The most common way for a case to reach the Supreme Court is on appeal from a circuit court. A party seeking to appeal a decision of a circuit court can file a petition to the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari.
Explanation:
Allegedly two naval destroyers of USA were destroyed in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. This was the event after which USA began its full scale involvement in the Vietnam war.
Explanation:
USA had been scaling and patrolling around the water of the Gulf of Tornkin for quite a lot of time as it bordered the waters of Vietnam which was beginning to become a war zone with the temperature rising and tensions up with the Soviet Union.
The ships were torpedoes allegedly by the soviets or the Vietnamese. This gave USA the final call to officially enter the war which they had not done until then and were staying away from for diplomatic reasons.
Great Britain declared war on Germany.