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When the Geneva Accords divided up the country following the end of the French Indochina War in 1954/55, the communists took the lands north of the 17th Parallel, and the free world occupied the country south of the 17th Parallel; the US was involved immediately at that time.

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Vietnam was the second "hot" battle of the Cold War. Korea was the first "hot" battle of the cold war.

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US Military advisers in '55.

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