In March 1965, Johnson made the decision-with solid support from the American public-to send U.S. bombings made Laos the most heavily bombed country per capita in the world. The bombing campaign was meant to disrupt the flow of supplies across the Ho Chi Minh trail into Vietnam and to prevent the rise of the Pathet Lao, or Lao communist forces. The bombing was not limited to Vietnam from 1964-1973, the United States covertly dropped two million tons of bombs on neighboring, neutral Laos during the CIA-led “Secret War” in Laos. planes began regular bombing raids, codenamed Operation Rolling Thunder, the following year. Congress soon passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave Johnson broad war-making powers, and U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, Johnson ordered the retaliatory bombing of military targets in North Vietnam. In August of 1964, after DRV torpedo boats attacked two U.S. Johnson, and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to further increase U.S. The ensuing political instability in South Vietnam persuaded Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year. Opposition to the war in the United States bitterly divided Americans, even after President Richard Nixon signed the Paris Peace Accords and ordered the withdrawal of U.S.

More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians.

The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.

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