Kennedy was asked to send additional troops to Vietnam. He sent additional troops and military advisors over to Vietnam to help.
At first he sent in about 50 military advisors. Later, he expanded this to more "advisors" and even military troops.
vietnam
Vietnam. The last US troops left Vietnam in 1975.
The vietcong strikes convinced President Kennedy to send American military advisers to South Vietnam
1961
India had their own problems with their neighbors.
Great Britain did not send troops to Vietnam during the war.
The first "advisors" were sent by President Eisenhower on 12 February 1955. On 13 May 1961 President Kennedy sent the first Special Forces troops to Vietnam. In March of 1965 President Johnson sent in two Marine Infantry Battalions.
To try and keep South Vietnam from falling to the Communists, and because the government of South Vietnam was too corrupt and incompetent to defend themselves. The government of South Vietnam was never able to defend themselves, and President Gerald R. Ford finally gave up on them in 1975. They soon fell to communist North Vietnam.
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the aussies send troops to fight alongside the US