That is always a tough question because it covers a long timeline. * Truman provided the French with leftover WWII equipment. * Eisenhower provided Cash, Advisers and Air America plus Intelligence and aircraft. * Kennedy added the Green Berets. * Johnson sent in the Marines to protect American Assets. And it brewed and grew. * Nixon accelerated with B-52's and cross border attacks. It was a political quagmire.
The Vietnam War spanned three US presidencies. The first troops were sent in by President John F. Kennedy (as military advisers, the war was then greatly expanded under President Lyndon Johnson, and then was further expanded, and eventually ended (unsuccessfully) under President Richard Nixon.
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Great Britain did not send troops to Vietnam during the war.
Much of the training to prepare troops for the conditions of the Vietnam jungles was done there.
President Eisenhower sent US troops to Vietnam in 1955, President Ford pulled out the last US troops in 1975.
The USA became involved in 1960, when President Kennedy sent military advisors to Vietnam. The nation was in a civil war. The US began to send troops in a large scale around 1964. At one point the US had 500,000 troops in Vietnam. The US was trying to keep communism from spreading in southeast Asia. The US did not wish to escalate the war into a larger theater. With that said, the US played a more defensive war. For example, the US did not invade North Vietnam. Popular unrest on the American home front became shocked at US losses. President Nixon end the war in 1973.
Johnson declared war on poverty. He did not win. He did not declare war on Vietnam but sent 500,000 troops there. He did not win.
Great Britain did not send troops to Vietnam during the war.
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The US Civil War (1861-1865) & the Vietnam War (1961-1975).
Eisenhower.
Much of the training to prepare troops for the conditions of the Vietnam jungles was done there.
President Eisenhower.
President Eisenhower sent US troops to Vietnam in 1955, President Ford pulled out the last US troops in 1975.
Lyndon Johnson.
Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War was to stop the spread of communism. What began as a limited engagement of a few troops ended with more than 60,000 troops in Vietnam and the title as Australia's most costly war.
The USA became involved in 1960, when President Kennedy sent military advisors to Vietnam. The nation was in a civil war. The US began to send troops in a large scale around 1964. At one point the US had 500,000 troops in Vietnam. The US was trying to keep communism from spreading in southeast Asia. The US did not wish to escalate the war into a larger theater. With that said, the US played a more defensive war. For example, the US did not invade North Vietnam. Popular unrest on the American home front became shocked at US losses. President Nixon end the war in 1973.
The same for most wars. Just the return home was different.
More American troops were coming home.