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The full might of the US military minus nuclear weapons.
american soldiers thought many south vietnamese were indifferent toward their own nation
The North Vietnamese wanted to reunite with their Southern half, and felt the US should stay out of their business. The North may or may not have considered being communists had anything to do with our involvement, but with the backing of the Soviet Union and Communist China, and on their own soil, they felt they could tackle the United States.
Not really. The Gulf of Tonkin is a body of water off the Vietnamese coast. American naval forces operating in the Gulf in 1964 claimed to have come under attack from communist Vietnamese patrol craft, although the truth of what happened remains in much dispute. At the time, the US used the incident as justification to increase its involvement against communist forces in Vietnam, which eventually turned into a huge deployment of US military forces.
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a massacre of unarmed Vietnamese Villagers by US troops
The north wanted the US out, the south wanted the US to stay.
the governemt had little or no involvement with monitoring the health of the banks.
The full might of the US military minus nuclear weapons.
the governemt had little or no involvement with monitoring the health of the banks.
american soldiers thought many south vietnamese were indifferent toward their own nation
President Nixon and the Vietnamization policy emphasized that the US must gradually withdraw its troops from Vietnam and shift the burden of fighting to the South Vietnamese forces. The goal was to allow the South Vietnamese to take on a greater role in the war and enable the US to reduce its military involvement.
Yes. There was no US formal declaration of war, but there was US military involvement, so they are considered "conflicts" in US jurisprudence. However, for the Iraqis, Vietnamese, and Koreans, they were certainly wars.
With the French defeat, the South Vietnamese government needed help to train and equip its army. The US was committed to stopping the spread of Communism throughout Asia.
No, he served three years in the US Navy - 1959-62. US involvement in Vietnam at that time was limited to a tiny number of troops, nominally acting as advisors to the Vietnamese army.
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The first Indo-China war between Vietnamese troops and French forces started in 1946 and ended in 1954 with Vietnamese victory at Dien Biên Phu. US involvement in Vietnam started in 1955.