Eisenhower.
Dwight Eisenhower, president from 1953-1961, sent financial aid to South Vietnam. John Kennedy, president from 1961-1963, sent military advisers. Lyndon Johnson, president from 1963-1969, sent combat troops. Richard Nixon, president from 1969-1974, escalated it by bombing Cambodia. The war finally ended in 1975.
Prior to the start of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese launched an effort to bring communism via revolution to the country with assistance from the Soviet Union and China. Responding to pleas for aid, Eisenhower sent aid to South Vietnam and Kennedy sent military advisors. At the height of the Cold War, fearing a communist advantage, President Johnson sent combat troops to Vietnam.
President Eisenhower sent military advisors and maybe some technicians to Vietnam to help the government there stay in power. That was the beginning of US involvement there.
In 1959 i was 32 years old and i remember reading in the news print that President Eisenhower had sent advisors to Viet-nam or was going to send advisors.
True.
The USSR gave aid to North Vietnam. China sent aid to the Vietcong via North Vietnam.
The US supplied massive military aid to South Vietnam. All in vain, as it turned out.
North Vietnam started the war against South Vietnam; the US went to the aid of the South.
Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) was President in 1959 when the Vietnam War began. About 900 US military advisors were sent to the area. President John F. Kennedy supported the anti-communist regime of South Vietnam, providing increased aid and support. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson used the Gulf of Tonkin incident to push Congress to authorize the direct deployment of US troops.
Eisenhower laid the groundwork for U.S. involvement in Vietnam with the Eisenhower Doctrine, which proclaimed that, when it came to the Middle East, the U.S. would be "prepared to use armed force...[to counter] aggression from any country controlled by international communism." Eisenhower was also the first president to send economic and military aid to South Vietnam. Kennedy followed in Eisenhower's footsteps by gradually increasing the amount of enonomic and military aid sent to South Vietnam. And it was Johnson who first sent large numbers of American ground troops to fight in Vietnam.
US sent military aid to France in 1940 to help them take over Vietnam.