During the 1990's, during some public speaking events, the Hanoi government inferred that approximately 1 million men had been lost during the war.
By the end of 1965, the United States had 184,300 troops in Vietnam.
See: Vietnam Time-line
To try and keep South Vietnam from falling to the Communists, and because the government of South Vietnam was too corrupt and incompetent to defend themselves. The government of South Vietnam was never able to defend themselves, and President Gerald R. Ford finally gave up on them in 1975. They soon fell to communist North Vietnam.
The first US military personnel arrived in Saigon in 1950 to assist the French in their war against the communist-led Viet Minh nationalists in the north. After independence and partition in 1954, the first US combat troops arrived in 1965 to support the military regime in South Vietnam against a communist-led insurgency supported by North Vietnam.
The FIVE remaining communist countries are; Cuba, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos. The closest communist country to the United States is Cuba, and the largest communist country is China. ~ John 9th grade
Not many because most of the communist troops were from the north. Take my word cas I am vietnamese if you can't tell by my name
roughly 60,000
60k troops dided
By the end of 1965, the United States had 184,300 troops in Vietnam.
No. First of all, Asia is not a country. Asia is a continent. It has many countries. Some of those countries are communist, but many of them are not.
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There were not any troops in Vietnam during the Kennedy administration. Just 500 military advisors. Kennedy was assassinated before we sent troops
See: Vietnam Time-line
Physically, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, South Korea, South Vietnam, and the Philippines had troops in Vietnam for the allies. Physically, the North Vietnamese Army and the southern communists called the Viet Cong were the opponent in South Vietnam. The Soviet Union and Communist (Red) China supplied material aid.
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.
Approximately 2,594,000 US servicemen served in the Vietnam War.