Misinformed people believe un-declared wars aren't real wars; which makes the US Civil War also a "conflict" since the American Civil War was NOT a declared war either.
the naval conflict in the Gulf of Tonkin
Certainly. A war is determined explicitly by the presence of conflict. If there was not conflict in Vietnam, there would not have been a war.
You've got it alittle reversed; "Before America's involvement in Vietnam it had been invaded and ruled..." by only 3 or 4 nations (not "all"); China, France, Japan.
If communist North Vietnam did not try to conquer South Vietnam, the war would have been prevented.
The korean 'war', if officially considered a war, as opposed to a 'police action', would predate the vietnam war, which has also been referred to as a 'conflict'. Semantics aside, u.s. 'involvement' in korea predated u.s. 'involvement' in vietnam.
The TET offensive of 1968 is considered by many to have been the beginning of the US's end of involvement in Vietnam.
They were concerned because at the time, China was communist so (obviously) they were supporting the north of Vietnam. China could have been worried as America had been such a big force in WWII.
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The war took place in Vietnam because it was a civil war between north and south Vietnam. north Vietnam were communists and south Vietnam were capitalists. Australia's involvement was because they wanted the war on Vietnam soil not on Australian and America and the other countries like new zealand and south Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Spain and Taiwan and ofcourse china
The Vietnam War No, it would have been Korea
They were concerned because at the time, China was communist so (obviously) they were supporting the north of Vietnam. China could have been worried as America had been such a big force in WWII.
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.