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21.Do you think that the US should have been involved in the war.

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21.Do you think that the US should have been involved in the war.

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America had no reason to enter the Vietnam war. We did not gain any thing from entering this war. The citizens of america were not happy about it. We did not have enough people fight in this war so we started the draft even though if we had not f in this fought war nothing would have happened.

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The U.S's involvement in Vietnam was reasonable because the U.S helped the Vietnamese but at the same time they will gain hate so i really don't know.

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Presidential Term: January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974.
President Nixons policy in vietnam was to train, equip and expand South Vietnamese forces so that they could take over more military responsibilities for their own defense against the North communists, and at the same time, allow U.S to gradually withdraw combat troops.

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21. no do not think that it was good the us was involved in the war because later on they just gave up and left and was a disgrace to the us.

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I don't think that the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War was reasonable because we didn't win nor lose. The fight went on for many years and many of our people died for no reason. My grandfather was drafted into this war in 1969. He says the time and money spent was not worth it.

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Vietcong is a group of Communist guerrillas who fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War. They began gaining territory in the countryside.

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15. guerrilla warfare was used against the us because it was about stealth and they would hide and wait

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Johnson was in office from November 22 1963 to January 20th 1969. When Johnson became president there were 16,000 american troops and in 1968 he had about 500,000

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14. the first troops that arrived in Vietnam were Lyndon Johnson, general khanh , Johnson aides

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Ho Chi Minh was a leader of North Vietnam. Diem led the southern area of Vietnam as a dictator.

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There was an international peace conference in Geneva to talk about Indochina's future, which previously belonged to the French and the French were defeated. Vietnam was divided at 17 degrees north latitude.

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The presidents during the war were Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford .

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13. the Tet offensive was a surprise attack on the south it involved more than 100 cities and towns

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12. the gulf of ton kin was the expansion of the Vietnam war

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The domino theory is an idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under control. Eisenhower saw it as a threat, he didn't want the nearby nations to fall under communist control. In Eisenhower's speech , he talks about the importance of Vietnam to the United States.

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11. their was 16000 us advisers by the time Kennedy died

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Geneva Conference lasted from April 26th to July 20th 1954 it was a conference about settling outstanding issues resulting in the Korean war. The conference took place in Geneva Switzerland.

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Operation phoenix was a program created by the U.S and (CIA) to attack and destroy political infrastructure.

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In the early 1900's , France had much control and territory in Southeast Asia. However, movements began and Ho Chi Minh turned to Communists for help. In the 30's the Communist party revolted and struck the French.

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The National Emblem is the official Vietnam symbol which has been used since 1955

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After 1975, the victorious North Vietnamese imposed tight control over the South. They sent thousands to "reeducation camps" for training in communist thought.

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Communist rebels known as Khmer Rouge. Set on turning Cambodia into a communist society.

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The last U.S. solders left Vietnam on March 29 1973

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During the end of the war people in the US became really upset with it.  They did not want fight in a war that we didn't have to.