The buildup of US troops in South Vietnam was accelerated after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which North Vietnamese gunboats attacked ships of the US Seventh Fleet off the coast of North Vietnam.
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Communist aggression commencing in 1955; Communist aggression in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964.
The TET offensive of 1968 is considered by many to have been the beginning of the US's end of involvement in Vietnam.
Vietnam was not a war it was an action.
they were used to spark protest against America's involvement in the Vietnam War
It was at the battle of Dien Bien Phu that the colonial power France lost what was to be the last battle of their war against the Viet Minh. After this battle, the colonial powers conspired to divide Vietnam into two parts, North and South. This division, called the Geneva Accords of 1954, eventually led the communists in the north to try to re-unite the two parts of the country into one country. The attempts by the USA to prevent this led to the Vietnam War
The Tet Offensive .