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Did south Vietnam ask for help from the us at the start of the Vietnam war?
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n 1954, the Vietminh forces of Vietnam defeated the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, and the nation was temporarily divided into two sections, north and south. The people of the south chose Ngo Dinh Diem as their ruler and Ho Chi Minh ruled the north. Diem refused to go along with the planned elections in 1956 to unite the nation so the Vietminh members in the south created the Viet Cong and the war between north and south for control of the country began. The government of South Vietnam requested military advisors from the United States to help train the South Vietnamese army. Ho Chi Minh was a communist and during the Cold War of the 1950s and 60s, the aim of the US government was containment of communist power and not to let it spread. The Eisenhower administration provided South Vietnam with money and advisors to help stop the threat of a North Vietnamese takeover. The United States also was pledged by treaty (SEATO) to aid the member nations in southeast Asia, if they were attacked by a foreign (communist) power. Following the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, President Lyndon B. Johnson also believed in containment and the domino theory. If one nation falls to communism, the next nation will fall, and the next, etc. It became the aim of the Johnson administration to prevent a communist takeover in Southeast Asia. In August, 1964, President Johnson reported to the nation that American ships had been attacked by North Vietnam gunboats in the Gulf of Tonkin, in international waters. The Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving the President the power to use whatever force necessary to protect our interests in the area. At the time, the truth was not reported. > http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2261 In February, 1965, the Viet Cong attacked an American military base near Pleiku. Using the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, President Johnson sent in 3,500 Marines, the first official troops, to South Vietnam. By the end of the year, there were 200,000 US troops in Vietnam.
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What is the relationship between the cold war and the Vietnam war?
The Cold War was pretty much the United States opposing communism, and it greatly relates to the Vietnam War because communists wanted to take over South Vietnam, and since the US had made opposing communism one of its goals the US is of couse going to help South Vietnam fight communism.
Was there a winner of the Vietnam War?
First, it wasn't a war. Officially it was a "police action". But if it looks like a war and smells like a war... it was a war. So, who won? The Vietnamese did. We got our butts kicked. As one who was in a Combined Action Group, living in a village as part of the Marine effort, giving medical aid to the villagers, 50% who were VC, we did not lose the war. We turned it over to the South and they were overtaken two years later. If we lost the war as above: ask the Vietnamese in the U.S., who have a vast better life than in Vietnam if they they agree. If we were not there, they would not be here.
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If he was a casualty, his name will be on the wall. If he's still present, ask him.
What president decided to take troops out of Vietnam?
I believe it was Richard Nixon in 1973 who began pulling out troops out of VietNam but the final pullout of American troops was in March of 1975. So between 1973 and 1975 we still had soldiers and possibly missions going on in VietNam. I myself am a veteran who served from 1973 to 1976 although I never went into VietNam, I feel justified in being recognized as a VietNam era veteran. Am I wrong in thinking that way ?? This I ask to those who went into VietNam?!?!? Please give me your comments
What started the whole conflict with the Vietnam war?
Vietnam did Anything to do with Vietnam, especially a question as emotional as this, is still very sensitive. However, I would have to say the first thing is to try and address which war between who in Vietnam. Many occured either simultaneously or around the same time. The war between the Vietnam and French? The war between the Vietnam and US? The US war with the Chinese? or the Cambodians? Debatably, no real conflict occured between the Vietnam and the Chinese, but certainly Vietnam had a decent go at a civil war (hence the North & South Vietnam). As to the US and Vietnam: The entirety of the conflict was by our armed forces on and in that country. No Vietnamese were ever known to have attacked the US, or US assets outside of those occupying their land. Regardless of what was going on internally there already, we (the US) certainly weren't personally involved. Had we not sent in forces to that countries land, whether it became more communist quickly or not, (something one is allowed, even protected to be in the US), there probably would have been no battles and we probably would not have ever had much to do with that area. Had we not sent our forces there, most certainly Vietnamese forces wouldn't have come to occupy US lands or towns -- and you would not now be learning about a US war with Vietnam.
Did south Vietnam ask for American help?
Yes.
How did the US government reacted to North Vietnam Army invasion of South Vietnam?
The US helped South Vietnam with the South's blessing; the North was deciding if they should fight just the Southerners, or the US too. In the end, the North fought them both.
What year did American troops enter the Vietnam war between north and south Vietnam?
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Why was America attacked Vietnam?
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, in which American destroyers engaged North Vietnamese boats. It triggered US Congress to pass Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, that allowed president Johnson to escalate American involvement in the war. However, this event was later discovered to be a fault.
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Vietnam is in Vietnam, it has not moved. It is a physical place.If you mean to ask Why have Vietnamese people come to the United States, please click on that.
