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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 2. August 1964 / Timeline August 2, 1964

1. August 1964, 3. August 1964

08/02/1964
Vietnamkrigen
Efter et påstået nordvietnamesisk angreb på den amerikansk destroyer USS Maddox, begynder USA luftbombardementer af Nordvietnam. Angrebet i Tonkin-bugten fandt aldrig sted, men bruges af den daværende amerikanske præsident Lyndon B. Johnson som anledning til officielt at starte krigen mod Nordvietnam.
Litteratur: Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Historical Series), Volume XX, 1968.

08/02/1964
Vietnam War
After an alleged North Vietnamese attack on the American destroyer USS Maddox, U.S. begins aerial bombardment of North Vietnam. The attack in the Tonkin Gulf never took place, but is used by the then U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson as an occasion to officially launch the war against North Vietnam

08/02/1964

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