History
Lyndon B. Johnson was elected in 1963 and began to unveil his political agenda: the Great Society and the Vietnam War. LBJ engineered the Gulf of Tonkin resolution to allow for U.S. presence in Vietnam and in 1965 he sent troops to Vietnam. He is credited with greatly increasing the war as well as engineering Operation Rolling Thunder. These years encompassed the majority of the war and caused anti-war tension at home. These years were the pinnacle of the Vietnam conflict, with both domestic and foreign issues occurring. Amidst the extremely liberal years of the 1960s, the Vietnam conflict sparked controversy from nearly every American.