The Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964)

The Gulf of Tonkin incident or the USS Maddox incident is the event responsible for America’s entry into the Vietnam war.

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Script:
Daniel Turner

Narrator:

Chris Kane

Animation:
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[AndresRamirez-fiuw]

"Described the attack on two U.S. Warships as a deliberate aggression". Yeah! Why you put your country so close to our Warships!?

[fullmetalfunk]

So to recap, the US was meddling in the affairs of another country (woah big surprise), sent it's warships into that country's waters, blew up 3 of their boats when those boats retaliated for the incursion, then went BACK into their waters and got spooked by a storm so we decided to start dropping napalm on them.

[Simplehistory]

“No actual visual sightings by Maddox. Suggest complete evaluation before any further action taken" Captain Herrick

[peytonburrell]

It always seems like a North v South thing, why can't we get an east vs west?

[patagarro]

they entered Nnorth Vietnamese water with warships -> viets answer (with all rights i'd say) -> Deliberate aggression.
flawless USA foreign politics logic

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[ReconPro]

Was this an example of yellow journalism simliar to that of the Spanish-American War.

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[SirGeorge]

Awesome video as always. My father fought in Vietnam, it was a brutal war.

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[Josh-qodl]

We complain about Trump. But serious all it took was 2 boats for a war.

[brodyroop]

I went straight to YouTube once I got the notification you uploaded a new video

[afrenchdude]

damn, hiring mercenaries to attack the north, then entering into the war while creating a false attack.. beautiful.. I love also the vocabulary used.. "drowned into the Vietnam war" :'( poor America, such a war victim

[Simplehistory]

Trivia: What were the two US jet models in this episode?

[guardiadecivil]

1:10 "Fired 3 warning shots"
*fires 2 cannons for some reason and fires only 2 times*

[lucaalfino]

2:50 the woman just couldn't give a shit😂😂

[gameexpert]

History should be like this, not fucking reading page by page with no pictures. 5 years ago when I was in 8th grade, my history teacher ONLY used a textbook called "Ways of the world" and god damn I had such a hard time understand and remembering. History films and animation are so much better... this channel is awesome, but I wish you guys came out during 2012-2013 school year lol

[xKingofDaNorthx]

It's cool to know about this Vietnam War stuff since my dad's uncle was a U.S. Marine during the Vietnam War.

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