What caused the Gulf of Tonkin affair?
A) American covert operations in Vietnam led North Vietnam to attack a U.S. ship.
B) American intervention in Cuba led Castro to urge the North Vietnamese to attack U.S. ships.
C) American hostility caused Khrushchev to ask the North Vietnamese to attack U.S. ships.
D) Russian hostility to North Vietnam caused Khrushchev to seize North Vietnamese ships.
E) North Vietnam attacked South Vietnamese ships carrying resources to the United States.
Answer: A
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