In the Vietnam War the US opposed the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. The fighters from North Korea, who used guerilla tactics, were known as the Viet Cong.
Communist aggression in both cases.
Guerrilla war in South Vietnam '55; conventional war with North Vietnam '64.
In 1953
June 1950.
To stop the spread of communism.
Lyndon Johnson was the one who escalated the conflict into a full scale war. However, Eisenhower sent in military advisers and Kennedy deepened the US commitment to the keeping a non-Communist government in Vietnam.
The cold war didn't go hot; if it did, it would've been called World War III. Therefore, there were two hot "battles" of the cold war; Korea and Vietnam. But Korea is not located in SEA (South East Asia); Korea is up the coast bordering Russia/China. Some people sometimes call them "hot wars" of the cold war. Korea & Vietnam were the "shooting portions" of the cold war.
Canadian men crossed into the US and joined the US military to fight in Vietnam. Canada itself did not go to war.
During the Vietnam War, in the US military, women were part of the WAC's (Women's Army Corps) in the US Army. The US Navy had the WAVE's.
No, he served in Korea, but his brother Weiland lost his life in Vietnam in 1970.
The United States went into war with Vietnam in the year 1965.