The United States got in involved with Vietnam in the 1950's when France pulled out. Eisenhower signed agreements that the United States would provide help. When JKF became president he put military advisers into Vietnam. After his death Johnson added troops and in 1968 the largest draft in US history. Nixon put troops in Laos and did bombing raids extending the war . In 1974 peace was signed and American troops were removed.
The fear of being invaded was not a justification for the increase in US involvement in Vietnam. The US withdrew from Vietnam in 1975.
False, US involvement in Vietnam was not reduced during the Kennedy administration.
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1954
1955.
1954
The full might of the US military minus nuclear weapons.
Historian's generally accept the year 1961 as the start of US military involvement in Vietnam.
No.
Because of US Policy to fight communism.
How did Martin Luther King, Jr., refer to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam?