The French war came first (1946-1954).
When Nixon ordered "military trainers" to Vietnam, the U.S. then started to become actively involved in Vietnam combat.
France was the primary European nation involved with Indo-China prior to the US's entry into Vietnam.
President Eisenhower dispatched US military detachments there in 1954 and 1955.
Just as responsible as Eisenhower before him, and LBJ after him. They all played their part.
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.
The U.S. sent funding and military support to French forces in Vietnam starting in 1950. By 1961 the US had military advisors stationed in Vietnam. The US did not become fully involved as a military force until 1965. The French fought for roughly 11 years prior to that. There is also the point that there have been military actions between North and South Vietnam hundreds of years before the French became involved.144 days????
Spain, France, and the Netherlands became involved.
Contain communism.
Lyndon Johnson.
When France left Vietnam in 1954 part of the country was controlled by the communists, and part was democratically controlled. The Communist controlled are became North Vietnam, and the Democratic area became South Vietnam.
The United States became involved in Vietnam because they wanted to stop communism from happening in that part of Asia.
to stop the sprend of communism