What was phase one of the Vietnam war?

Answer 1

1955-President Eisenhower sends US Advisers to Vietnam. 1961-President Kennedy sends Special Forces (Green Beret) to Vietnam. 1965-President Johnson sends US Regulars to Vietnam. 1969-President Nixon begins OFFENSIVE campaigns against N. Vietnam & Withdrawals in South Vietnam. 1975-President Ford evacuates US/Allied personnel from South Vietnam.

Answer 2

Initially, the United States provided military instructors (called advisers) to improve the ability of South Vietnam forces to protect the country from North Vietnamese communist incursion. (61-64)

As the war grew, US troops were needed to protect the American advisers. This build-up led to large-unit deployments from the Army and Marines as well as support from the Navy and Air Force. At this point, the war transitioned from a South Vietnamese conflict to the majority of the fighting taken over by U.S. forces.

(65-69)

With strong public outcry in the U.S. against the war, the American objective of protecting South Vietnam from Vietnamese incursion, the final phase, called "Vietnamization" again focused on improving South Vietnamese forces and withdrawing U.S. troops. (70-73)

U.S. forces left South Vietnam by the spring of 1973, and the south was left to defend itself from the north without American forces. Two years later, in April 1975, North Vietnamese forces occupied South Vietnam's Presidential Palace in Saigon, thus ending that government and unifying Vietnam into a single country.

Answer 3

1. Phase one (1955-1964)-Guerrilla war in South Vietnam.

2. Phase two (1964-1975)-Conventional war in South Vietnam and war against North Vietnam.

Note: Although US Combat Regular Troops were not deployed in large numbers until 1965; the direct aerial bombing of North Vietnam by US jet aircraft (USN F8 Crusaders and A4 Skyhawks) commenced in August 1964. Prior to 1964 NORTH VIETNAM was not officially & openly bombed.