The 1950s
Historian's generally accept the year 1961 as the start of US military involvement in Vietnam.
A North Vietnamese military patrol supposedly attacked a US destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin which led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.Rebecca
Tonkin Gulf Incident
Over 16,000,000 US draft dodgers and families, friends either protested or resisted the draft, or were outspoken critics of the war. (Vietnam Statistics, Sears).
Alright. The Vietnam War begin because the U.S. president, Eisenhower didn't want communism to spread throughout the world and eventually to America. The war ended because the north and south of Vietnam signed a treaty.
Historian's generally accept the year 1961 as the start of US military involvement in Vietnam.
The support for the Vietnam War began to dwindle by the late 1960s. This was because the war was affecting everyone, not just the lower economic classes.
The Korean war ended in 1953, and US military involvement in Vietnam did not begin until 1965, although American Military Advisors and Covert Operatives had been active in Vietnam since 1954.
A North Vietnamese military patrol supposedly attacked a US destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin which led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.Rebecca
The Korean war
It began when President Eisenhower sent US military units to South Vietnam in 1955. It ended when the US embassy was evacuated in April 1975.
To find US military ONLY casualties, the Viet Vet Memorial Wall lists that info on their "Information page." The first US military casualties begin on or about 1956/57.
In about 1940.
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