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==Gulf of Tonkin Resolution==
[[FileБилэ:USS Maddox (DD-731).jpg|thumb|The destroyer USS ''Maddox''. It was alleged that 3 North Vietnamese torpedo boats fired on the Maddox. And two days later in the same area, upon the Maddox and the destroyer USS ''Turner Joy''.
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This led to the United States Congress passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which gave the U.S. President expanded power to wage war. This promptly led to the escalation of the war in Vietnam.]]
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<tr><td>[[FileБилэ:37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4.jpg|120px|]]<br><center>U.S. President<br>[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]</center></td><td valign="top">In 1965 Lyndon B. Johnson commented privately on what he believed probably occurred the previous year in the Gulf of Tonkin:<br><br> “Hell, those dumb stupid sailors were just shooting at flying fish."<br><br> “For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there.”</td></tr></table>
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They often ate and slept in these tunnels and would disappear into them when the Americans raided a village.
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[[FileБилэ:Viet Cong002.jpg|thumb|left|Captured photo showing Vietcong troops traveling in flat-bottomed boats called sampans.]]
[[FileБилэ:173d Airborne Brigade- Vietnam War-Hill 823.jpg|thumb|left|US Airborne troops under attack during the Battle of Dak To (1967).]]
There were some large-scale battles during the Vietnam War however most of the fighting was guerilla warfare. The word guerilla is Spanish for 'little war'. This type of warfare is different from the large-scale battles fought between armies, like those in World War II.
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==Fall of Saigon==
[[FileБилэ:Vietnamese refugees on US carrier, Operation Frequent Wind.jpg|thumb|Vietmanese refugees fleeing from communist forces, on an American aircraft carrier off the coast of Vietnam on April 29, 1975, the day before the complete fall of Saigon.]]
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front on April 30, 1975. This marked the end of the Vietnam War and the beginning of the formal reunification of Vietnam into a communist state.