Make a choice between Truman who gave material and financial aid to France, Eisenhower who added advisers, intelligence support and Air America, Kennedy who sent in the Green Berets or Johnson who sent in the Marines.
The United States went into war with Vietnam in the year 1965.
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.
President Carter did not support the amnesty for men who left the US to avoid the draft during the Vietnam war due to his will to win the war and defeat Vietnam.
President Eisenhower sent US Military Advisers to South Vietnam in 1955.
richard nixon
The US Civil War (1861-1865) & the Vietnam War (1961-1975).
North Vietnam started the war against South Vietnam; the US went to the aid of the South.
The US had military advisers in Vietnam under Kennedy, but the was did not really start for the US Johnson became President.
The communists!
NO- the actual War occurred after he left office. He did send some military advisers to Vietnam and started the idea of US involvement there.
The United States went into war with Vietnam in the year 1965.
The president of South Vietnam at the end of the war was Nguyen Van Thieu.
They started the Vietnam War
Nixon and Ford.
lyndon b. Johnson
President Eisenhower sent US troops to Vietnam in 1955, President Ford pulled out the last US troops in 1975.
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.