Under Nixon we began the troop withdraw l, but the Fall of Siagon (1975), when we officially left completely, was under Ford.
Kennedy added more "advisers", Johnson drafted the most men and sent in the most of the troops, and Nixon expanded the war with his secret bombings into Laos. So, the three of them escalated it bit by bit. Despite the acts of President Nixon, he had run for president on the promise to end the Vietnam War. This he accomplished.
Lyndon Johnson was the President of the US during the Vietnam War from the assassination of John Kennedy until the election of Richard Nixon.
it caused president johnson to send more troops to vietnam
In January 1973, an agreement reached and U.S. forces were withdrawn from Vietnam and U.S. prisoners of war were released.
In 1972, North Vietnam finally realized that the war was a stalemate. The two sides met and arranged a cease fire. In January of 1973 the Paris Accords went into effect. The US agreed to withdraw all its troops from Vietnam in 60 days. Congress had stopped funding the war effort. The North Vietnamese government agreed to release all prisoners, which they never did. Free elections were to be held in Vietnam. The President of South Vietnam considered the agreement between North Vietnam and the US as a sell out. But it allowed President Nixon to save face and bring the soldiers home. By 1975, after US troops had been pulled out of South Vietnam, the ARVN (Army of the Republic of South Vietnam) collapsed and the North Vietnamese moved into Saigon, ending the war and finalizing the take over of the South by the North. Our purpose in the war is debated to this day.
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.
Nixon and Ford.
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President Eisenhower sent US troops to Vietnam in 1955, President Ford pulled out the last US troops in 1975.
Over 300,000 US servicemen were wounded in the Vietnam War.
According to US Generals, the US was clearly winning in Vietnam, until Tet arrived; then things got a little chaotic, the war got worse...and worse.
President Eisenhower sent US advisers to Vietnam in 1955. President Kennedy sent US Special Forces (Green Beret) to Vietnam in 1961. President Johnson sent US regular forces to Vietnam in 1965.
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 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.
John F. Kennedy was President. 1960 to 1963
Lyndon Johnson.