The involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War began in the 1950s and greatly escalated in 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The U.S. military presence in Vietnam peaked in April 1969, with …

3 days ago · The Vietnam War (1954–75) was a conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, …

Oct 29, 2009 · The Vietnam War and active U.S. involvement in the war began in 1954, though ongoing conflict in the region had stretched back several decades.

Mar 9, 2018 · While the first United States combat troops landed in Vietnam in 1965, American interest in the country dated back to World War II. After the Japanese defeat in 1945, US involvement in …

Sep 11, 2017 · July 1995: Under President Bill Clinton, the U.S. normalizes relations with Vietnam. In 1964, two supposed incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin lead Johnson to seek congressional approval for...

America's war in Vietnam ended over four decades ago, yet a number of significant and important questions remain unanswered: Why did America intervene in Vietnam? Was the conflict a civil war? …

Ultimately, U.S. involvement ended with a peace agreement in 1973, followed by the fall of Saigon in 1975, leading to the reunification of Vietnam under communist control. The legacy of the war …

Officially, people point to 1965. But dig deeper and you'll find roots stretching back to Truman's administration. What started as military advisors ended with over half a million troops in jungle hell. …

Eisenhower placed military advisers and CIA operatives in Vietnam, and John F. Kennedy sent American soldiers to Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson ordered the first real combat by American troops, …

3 days ago · In late July Johnson took the final steps that would commit the United States to full-scale war in Vietnam: he authorized the dispatch of 100,000 troops immediately and an additional 100,000 …