They didn't get involved because they had no motive to do so.
no its 1968
Great Britain stayed out of it. Australia and New Zealand fought in South Vietnam.
The battle of Dien Bien Phu led to the direct involvement of the US in Vietnam in the hopes of curbing communist expansionist policies .
One of the main reasons for the UK's none involvement in the Vietnam War was their role in the Indonesia-Malaysia War which took place at the same time. Britain fought a war against Communist forces similar to that of the US against the Viet Mihn (except unlike the US, Britain won).
The fear of being invaded was not a justification for the increase in US involvement in Vietnam. The US withdrew from Vietnam in 1975.
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Historian's generally accept the year 1961 as the start of US military involvement in Vietnam.
False, US involvement in Vietnam was not reduced during the Kennedy administration.
How did Martin Luther King, Jr., refer to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam?
Britain had an excuse not to participate in the Vietnam War; they were not located in the Pacific Realm. Britains's cousins Australia and New Zealand participated in the war as they are located in the region. The Vietnam War was NOT popular in Britain, Australia nor New Zealand. Britain continuously pushed the US for mediation of the war rather than military action.
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