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Who was the first President to get the US involved in the Vietnam war?
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∙ 15y ago
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.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoLyndon Baines Johnson increased US presence in Vietnam after president Kennedy started us involvement with US soldiers who were armed, and who fought the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong but who were called "advisors".
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∙ 15y agoDwight D. Eisenhower was the president that got America involved in the Vietnamese War.
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∙ 15y agoEisenhower
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President in the vietam war?
No US president fought in the Vietnam War. Eisenhower and Kennedy were the president when the US first became involved. Johnson and Nixon were the president when the serious fighting took place.
Who was at war with the UK in the the Vietnam war?
The UK was not involved in the Vietnam war - it was the USA!
Who was the president during the buildup of Vietnam war?
LBJ was the first US president to send conventional combat troops to RVN and the first president to begin openly bombing North Vietnam.
What was the Vietnam war called before the US got involved?
The First Indochina War or the French-Indocina War.
Which US President was known for his routine televised updates regarding the Vietnam war?
President Lyndon Johnson was intimately involved in operations in Vietnam down to battalion level from the Situation Room below the White House. He regularly spoke on television with updates on the war.
What president was not involved with the Vietnam warwhat persident was not in the Vietnam war?
Eisenhower.
How was president Kennedy involved in the Vietnam war?
he did not want the Vietnam war to start in the first place, but a bunch of rednecks ameriicans disagreed with him, and he ended up getting assassinated by a Jew .
What president was involved in the Vietnam war in 1964 to1968?
Lyndon Johnson.
President in the vietam war?
No US president fought in the Vietnam War. Eisenhower and Kennedy were the president when the US first became involved. Johnson and Nixon were the president when the serious fighting took place.
What President first involved the US in Vietnam?
Harry S. Truman, who began providing aid and materiel to the French during the First Indochina War in 1950.
Why did the us get involved in the vietnam war-?
The United States did get involved in the Vietnam war because of communism in Vietnam.
Who was president in south Vietnam during the Vietnam war?
First Diem, later Thieu
Who was at war with the UK in the the Vietnam war?
The UK was not involved in the Vietnam war - it was the USA!
Who was the president during the buildup of Vietnam war?
LBJ was the first US president to send conventional combat troops to RVN and the first president to begin openly bombing North Vietnam.
Who first sent us troops to the Vietnam war?
President Eisenhower.
What was the Vietnam war called before the US got involved?
The First Indochina War or the French-Indocina War.
How was the UN involved in Vietnam after the Vietnam War?
They weren't.
