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American's Involvement in Vietnam

Dianne I. Causey
History 102
Mr. Phillips
The Vietnam War took place in Southeast Asia, which the United States fought during 1960s and early 1970s. The war waged from 1954 to 1975 between the communist North Vietnam and noncommunist South Vietnam, two parts of what was once the French colony of Indochina. Vietnamese communists attempted to take over the South, both by the invasion from the North and by guerrilla warfare conducted within the South by the Viet Cong. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy sent increasing numbers of American military advisors to South Vietnam in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Kennedy's successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson increased American military support greatly, having a half a million soldiers in Vietnam.
American goals in Vietnam proved difficult to achieve, and the communist Tet offensive was a severe setback. Reports of atrocities committed by both sides in the war disturbed many......

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