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The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war stretched from the administrations of Kennedy through Ford. The majority of the War occurred during the Lyndon Johnson and Nixon administrations.
Communist containment.
The Domino Theory was the driving force behind the Kennedy administrations actions in Vietnam.
False, US involvement in Vietnam was not reduced during the Kennedy administration.
Robert McNamara, (Kennedy and Johnson Administrations). Clark Clifford, (Johnson Administration). Melvin Laird, (Nixon Administration).
Because they were too stupid to realize that South Vietnam was a lost cause.
The Domino Theory
History indicates the administrations of President's Eisenhower and Kennedy.
Kennedy sent in the Green Berets (Special Forces).
Five presidents played a part in the conflict. Eisenhower started sending in military advisers. Then Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and finally Gerald Ford got the US out of it.
President Johnson used the Gulf of Tonkin incident to deepen American involvement in Vietnam. And as early as February 1965, U.S. planes began to bomb North Vietnam. American troop strength in Vietnam increased to more than 180,000 by the end of the year and to 500,000 by 1968. ChaCha!
Eisenhower sent some American military adviser to Vietnam and so initiated US involvement there. Kennedy did more of the same, but the war did not really start for the US until Johnson took office.