Just another foreign affair taking place in another part of the world. Until their draft notice appeared in the mail. Then all of a sudden, they now had a personal stake in the matter.
About 2 1/2 million US servicemen fought in the Vietnam War.
That would depend on which people you are referring to. It would also be depenable on which war and with whom.
America entered the Vietnam war to stop the spread of Communism
The longest war the United States ever entered was the Vietnam War.
The U.S. entered the Vietnam war in 1959 and withdrew in 1973
Part of the cold war.
Stop communist aggression.
They protested the draft.
They never heard of Vietnam before.
The Vietnam war started during the cold war. The United States entered the Vietnam war in hopes of stopping the spread of communism.
To save the Republic of South Vietnam from being conquered by the COMMUNIST country of North Vietnam.
Australian troops entered into the Vietnam War on the 29th April 1965.