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The US had military advisers in Vietnam under Kennedy, but the was did not really start for the US Johnson became President.
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Lyndon Johnson authorized this and most of the military operations in Vietnam.
which resolution allowed president johnson to increase us involment in vietnam
President Eisenhower sent US advisers to Vietnam in 1955. President Kennedy sent US Special Forces (Green Beret) to Vietnam in 1961. President Johnson sent US regular forces to Vietnam in 1965.
The Tonkin Gulf set it off.
Eisenhower believed in the domino theory that justified intervention in Vietnam and he sent advisors to support the non-Communist government there. Kennedy greatly increased the military aid sent to Vietnam and had the US deeply involved there. Johnson then escalated the War greatly. So, you could say that Eisenhower started it, Kennedy made it inevitable and Johnson really made it a war.
Johnson sends US Regulars to Vietnam in 1965.
President Johnson believed that the US could defeat north Vietnam because the US had won WWII with firepower, and the US had the most firepower on earth during the Vietnam War.
In the 1950s and 1960s Eisenhower and Kennedy sent US soldiers to South Vietnam. In 1965 President Johnson sent the US Marines.
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Presidents Johnson and Nixon
US Ambassadors did not believe Diem would accomplish US goals in Vietnam.
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Johnson & Nixon.
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Lyndon Johnson.