In 1950, long before the Vietnam War began, Truman gave aid to the French in their fight against the Vietminh. President Eisenhower upped the ante after the French defeat at Dien Binh Phu by providing military advisors to help train the South Vietnamese Army.
By not honoring Roosevelt's (FDR) commitment to Ho Chi Minh to end Imperialism in Asia. This allowed France to continue to occupy Vietnam after WWII creating the need in Ho Chi Minh's mind to go to war with the occupiers. Once France gave up, the USA stepped in against France's warning that North Vietnam's infiltration of South Vietnam had progressed too far and now the war was no longer winnable.
January 1950 Harry Truman signed a bill from Congress giving France $15 million in aid to help the French, who at the time had laid claim to V/N. Tha'ts about it for Truman. Truman dies in 1953 before JFK sent "Military Advisers" then later armed forces and the rest, as they say, is history..............David
In an indirect manner, he did provide cash and WWII military surplus equipment to France to help them re-establish their colony.
JFK was the first president to send american troops into Vietnam.
And yet hippies loved him anyway.
Trippy man.
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General Douglas MacArthur was no longer in the military when the Vietnam War began. President Truman relieved him of Command during the Korean War on April 10, 1951.
No. He had resigned from his army commission by 1952. Truman asked him to step down as General of the Army. This is well before Vietnam.
No, General MacArthur fought in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. In 1951, President Harry Truman discharged MacArthur for disrespecting him (Truman) and other superiors in charge of the Korean conflict.
Truman was the first US president to have to fight a limited war, it was he that ordered the world's first atomic weapon usage. And it was he, that had to stop the communists in Korea. His plans, although no doubt modified to meet the times, was still pursued in the fight to contain the spread of communism in Vietnam.
He was sort of busy fighting the Korean War at the time (1950-1953).
Harry Truman was not directly involved in the Vietnam War as it occurred after his presidency. The Vietnam War took place from 1955 to 1975, and Truman's presidency ended in 1953. However, the United States' involvement in Vietnam escalated during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
* The Cold War. * The Korean War. * The Vietnam War.
Truman had Korea; Eisenhower initiated Vietnam.
he did not participate in vietnam. He was discharged from the service in 1951 by Truman for disrespecting his superiors.
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He supported the French efforts to reestablish their colony in Vietnam.
General Douglas MacArthur was no longer in the military when the Vietnam War began. President Truman relieved him of Command during the Korean War on April 10, 1951.
The Vietnam war ended in 1975, Gerald Ford was president.
Each escalated it, alittle a time.
President Reagan during the Iraq-Iran Persian Gulf War; Truman for the Korean War; Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford for Vietnam.
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter.