Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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About one half of the American people.
The NVA and the VC (North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong).
To use aerial bombardments to force the communists to quit their struggle against South Vietnam.
It transformed the guerrilla war in South Vietnam into a conventional war in both South Vietnam and a war directly against North Vietnam.
Communist sympathizers living in South Vietnam; often conducting guerrilla warfare against Republic of South Vietnam Government forces.