Which of the following is true of President Johnson's response to the August 1964 report that U.S. destroyers had been attacked twice by North Vietnamese patrol boats in the Gulf of Tonkin?
a. Even though evidence of the second attack was questionable, President Johnson ordered retaliatory airstrikes against North Vietnam
b. Johnson suggested the use of tactical nuclear weapons against strategic targets in North Vietnam.
c. Johnson expressed grave fears that the incident would bring the United States and the Soviet Union intoarmed conflict.
d. The incident convinced Johnson that North Vietnam was being supplied with sophisticated military equipmentby the Soviet Union.
a
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