The Lie That Led to Millions Dying

Mr. Beat explains how the Vietnam War escalated based on lies.
Possibly millions of people died because of those lies.

Produced by Matt Beat. Music by @DivKid.

Here's an annotated script with footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mNTgqGGxcuEfzBicnFmmoDx0eudgFap71AA3YqfxIkM/edit?usp=sharing

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The Vietnam War was based on a lie.

In August 1964, an American destroyer named the USS Maddox was hanging out on the coast of North Vietnam. It was in enemy waters, as the United States had been already trying to topple the North Vietnamese government for years by that point.

Well, on August 2nd, the USS Maddox was attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. Two days later, North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked it again. In response, the U.S. Congress effectively gave President Lyndon Johnson the authority to go to war against North Vietnam.

But here’s the thing, the USS Maddox wasn’t attacked.

Well, North Vietnamese torpedo boats did fire on the USS Maddox on August 2nd, but only after it FIRST fired shots at them. And the supposed second attack two days later? It never happened at all.

It’s possible that millions of people died because of that lie.

#vietnamwar #ushistory #apush

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