From 1965 until 1973, the United States of America was at war with the communist nation of North Vietnam. ... "The war on the US home front provoked deepening bitterness and still remains hugely controversial. ... Most American people had very little knowledge of the Vietnam War and the complete underlying reasons for the US involvement. The conflict between the United States and the North Vietnamese nation began long before the first US troops arrived in Vietnam in 1965. The Vietnam War began in the early 1950's between the French and the North Vietnamese. ...

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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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Two kinds of War Powers Legislation awaited final action in the Senate and the House in 1973. ... The other, more importantly, allowed Congress to use Congressional power to prevent the Executive from taking us into a third Indo-Chinese war. ... Then too, as with the undeclared war in Vietnam, this was a bi-partisan phenomenon. ... Congress passed war powers bills but they died with the session when the differences between them could not be reconciled. ... Senators Church of Idaho and Case of New Jersey introduced a bill forbidding the use of any funds whatsoever to finance the re-involve...

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