The French Indochina War most likely led to the (so called) American Vietnam War. Because the French war divided up the country into TWO nations; North & South Vietnams.
When the communist led North Vietnam attempted to take over (conquer) South Vietnam... this led to US involvment.
The Vietnam war
the Vietnam war
One event that caused an escalation of troop involvement in Vietnam was the incident in 1964 at the Gulf of Tonkin.
The buildup of US troops in South Vietnam was accelerated after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which North Vietnamese gunboats attacked ships of the US Seventh Fleet off the coast of North Vietnam.
The war in Vietnam
pearl harbour
The cold war led to the Vietnam War; the outcome was also because of the cold war. Another words, had there NOT BEEN a cold war (which was created by the atomic bomb); the Vietnam War would have been fought normally/traditionally...with everything the US had (presuming nukes DID NOT exist) and the North would've been invaded...as in ALL US WARS previously.
World War I
World War I
World War I
pearl harbour
The atomic age (1945) was the sole event leading into the Vietnam War. 1. No atomic age, no cold war. 2. No cold war; no Vietnam War.