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**You chose not to fire**
**Captain John J Herrick** chose to refrain from firing at the PT boats that approached in hopes that the boats were only patrolling their own waters. However, as the North Vietnamese boats came closer **Captain Herrick** started to have second thoughts about his decision, but it was too late.The PT boats fire their torpedoes, sinking the Maddox. U.S citizens were enraged and stood fully behind congress and **President Johnson** in his request for war. The Vietnam War became a popular and well funded effort, with many volenteeres egear to fight for democracy. The **U.S.S.R**, however was in full support of the communist //**North Vietnam Army**//, and it gave huge funding and supplies for the war effort against the U.S. This increased military armerment of the //**North Vietnames Army**// allowed them to face the American Army head on. This is a war that the U.S. is much more adapt at fighting. As the war went on, support for the U.S troops continued, and the cry “Remember the Tonkin” drove the American war effort. This determination and resolve allowed the U.S. to emerge victorious in the //Vietnam War//. The war was won in 1974 when the U.S. officially unified Vietnam as a democracy. The U.S.S.R. was devastated by the loss of an ally and was in economic ruin due to the huge amount of resources they gave to the **North Vietnamese Army**. The people of the **U.S.S.R.** were tired of being lied to, terrorized and exploited by the soviet premier, **Nikita** **KHRUSHCHEV.** Soon political unrest set in and a capitalist movement known as "The Glasnosts" was lead by an enthusiastic leader **Boris Yeltsin**. The Glasnosts staged a capitalist revolution to be more like the prosperous U.S. As a result of the successful revolution in the **U.S.S.R** the Warsaw pact fell apart ending the C//old War//. Many other communist countries that depended on the **U.S.S.R** staged similar revolutions, this included Communist China and North Korea. North and South Korea merged into a single country and the threat of nuclear attacks from the dictator of North Korea Kim Jong il were extinguished. Also due to the deterioration of the //Cold War// the United States was able to focus resources on its economy and continued its domination into the twenty-first century.

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