Lone Star College US Gulf of Tonkin Resolution & WPR Questions Discussion please read the documents at the links below and answer the following questions.

Lone Star College US Gulf of Tonkin Resolution & WPR Questions Discussion please read the documents at the links below and answer the following questions. You answers should be in your own words and at least three sentences in length.

USE THE PROVIDE SOURCES, NO OUTSIDE SOURCES

1. What was the U.S. justification for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (GTR)?

2. Why did the GTR state that the U.S. had “no territorial, military, or political ambitions in the area”?

3. What power did the GTR give President Lyndon Johnson?

4. Why did Congress create the War Powers Resolution (WPR)?

5. What does the WPR require of the President?

6. In what way does the WPR speak to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

7. In your opinion, should a President have authority to deploy the military without approval from Congress? Why or why not?