This war caused a major division among the people and between the people and the United States government. ... The French were losing and were not able to control the communist North Vietnamese from invading South Vietnam. ... There was a meeting between the major powers at the time to try and come to an agreement as to what to do with Indochina. ... No one would ever take us seriously again. On August 2, 1964 the USS Maddox was off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, when it was fired upon by some North Vietnam gunboats. ...

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