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The Tonkin Gulf Incident resulted in the DEPLOYMENT of US conventional troops and the direct bombing of North Vietnam; open combat between North Vietnam and the United States.
to increase the number of American troops and bombing campaigns in Vietnam.
Over 500,000
When President Nixon took office there was approximately 536,100 American troops in Vietnam. President Nixon immediately started reducing the number of troops in Vietnam.
President Lyndon B. Johnson was directly linked to the dramatic increase in the number of troops deployed to Vietnam in the mid-1960s
Only a very limited number of "observers".
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The Americans used a process called Vietnamization to pull their troops out of Vietnam. South Vietnamese soldiers slowly took over the jobs of American soldiers in Vietnam in order to get troops out without causing much of a dramatic change.
It forced French troops to leave Vietnam and divided Vietnam into two countries. (A)
Britain did not want to weaken it's forces in Europe by sending troops to Vietnam.
Why US troops at Thailand tdy's in Vietnam 1962?
To prepare for the United States invasion of Laos.