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The ACTUAL correct answer is: A. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Dates of the items listed:
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: 1964
- Operation Rolling Thunder: 1965-1968
- Tet Offensive: 1968
- Vietnamization: began 1969, under Nixon Administration
Further detail on Gulf of Tonkin Resolution:
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, passed by Congress in August, 1964, after alleged attacks on two US naval ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. The key wording in the resolution said:
- <em>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.</em>
That resolution served as a blank check for President Johnson to send troops to whatever extent he deemed necessary in pursuance of the war. Between 1964 and the end of Johnson's presidency in 1969, US troop levels in Vietnam increased from around 20,000 to over 500,000.
Checks and Balances are all spread through out the branches. Each one is designed so no one branch became to powerful, each branch has to check and balance another one.
Interesting document.
It was issued by the German Foreign office (January 1917) proposing that Mexico should align itself with Germany in the even America enter the war. Germany was pleading for an alliance that would keep America busy dealing with an attack from the south. Fortunately it didn't work.
