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.
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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The Vietnam War
if he did not believe in the war, Nither did most Americans or that Americans no longer believed the Vietnam war could be won <3 kelsmo :)
the Vietnam War
One hot battle of a cold war.
He was said to escalate the Vietnam War to drastic levels that were outrageous.
By 1967, most American students did not favor U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. There were many demonstrations taking place against the war. Soldiers coming home from the war were not greeted warmly.
Lyndon B Johnson, the 36th President of the U.S., helped to escalate American involvement in Vietnam by sending more troops to war. This stimulated an anti-war movement and his domestic policies failed.
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To escalate a simple guerrilla war being conducted in the republic of South Vietnam into an open conventional war against North Vietnam itself.
lyndon B Johnson, the 36th President of the U.S., helped to escalate American involvement in Vietnam by sending more troops to war. This stimulated an anti-war movement and his domestic policies failed.
They weren't.
1955.
They didn't want it to escalate into a nuclear war; then they'd be involved.
Well, yes, we and the USSR were basically the only real country's in the war. However the cold war never really was a literal war. However the Korean War and the Vietnam War were effects of the Cold War, Also the Cuban Missile Crisis was as well.
Over 50,000 Australian Servicemen fought in the Vietnam War.