Agent Orange was the toxic, leaf-killing chemical sprayed over Vietnam.
Kennedy was asked to send additional troops to Vietnam. He sent additional troops and military advisors over to Vietnam to help.
Communist North Vietnam, with help from the Chinese, was trying to take over democratically controlled South Vietnam.
Which one? The North was getting bombed into a lunar landscape and the South had GIs all over it. So which Vietnamese are you asking about?
To help preserve it from a communist NORTH Vietnamese take-over.
Eisenhower sent troops to South Vietnam so they can fight North Vietnam because North Vietnam wanted to take over South Vietnam and they did.
US sent military aid to France in 1940 to help them take over Vietnam.
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. As the Vietnam War generation goes the way of the American Civil War generation, the WW1 generation, the WW2 generation, etc. time will heal those "painful memories" and man will do it all over again.
Wings Over Vietnam happened in 2004.
?........the Vietnam war was a war between north and south Vietnam and America. America was trying to defend south Vietnam from the north invading and controling their territory. so America was on the side with south Vietnam
to keep north Vietnam from taking over south Vietnam....
north Vietnam took over south Vietnam