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Two ways:

1. Transitioning the guerrilla war in RVN to a conventional war by deploying tanks and conventional troops.

2. By directly bombing North Vietnam.

Vietnam was no longer a guerrilla war.

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Containing Communism was the reason for aid to the French. Dien Bin Phu meant that the French had to withdraw and the US simply filled the vacumn.

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