What event prompted the United States to increase its military involvement in Vietnam?

The attack on the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 prompted Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which allowed President Johnson to expand U.S. military action in Vietnam. The Geneva Accords and Vietnam’s independence from France came earlier, while communist unification occurred after the United States withdrew.

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