Address the following questions:
1) How and why did the US escalate the Vietnam War?
2) What was the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
3) Why does the Gulf of Tonkin incident matter not just for the past, but for the present?
4) What was LBJ's Guns and Butler approach? Did it work?
5) How did the war impact Americans at home? What brought the war, America's longest and least successful, to a close?
6) Are there any parallels to then and the situation now in Iraq?