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People that were soldiers and people that protected other people.

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People that were soldiers and people that protected other people.

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The president in my year (1947) is Harry S Truman. This is the era right after the World War, and communism is starting to spread.

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The president in my year (1947) is Harry S Truman. This is the era right after the World War, and communism is starting to spread.

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On May 07, 1954, Viet Minh forces won the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and ended French involvement in Indochina. ... Second and most importantly, if the communists won in Vietnam, communism could spread throughout Southeast Asia and become a greater threat to the U.S.

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There were 5 U.S. Presidents during its involvement in the Vietnam War. They were:

1. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)

Following the French defeat in the First Indochina War and subsequently the Geneva Accords leading to a partition of Vietnam, President Eisenhower decided to support anti-communist leader Ngo Dinh Diem in consolidating power in the South.

In September 1954, he created the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) in an attempt to block communist spread to Southeast Asia. SEATO essentially put Vietnam under its protection, which later became one of the major justifications for the U.S. intervention in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

In February 1955, President Eisenhower sent the first American military advisors to Vietnam to help build up Diem's army. When Diem announced the formation of Republic of Vietnam (later known as South Vietnam) in October 1955, Eisenhower immediately recognized and offered military and economic assistance to the new nation. In fact, the MAAG Vietnam was reorganized from MAAG Indochina in November 1955 to train South Vietnamese Army.

In July 1956, Diem under the U.S. support refused to participate in the unifying elections. The Eisenhower administration believed that the communists could have won the elections thanks to the popularity of their leader Ho Chi Minh, which was an unacceptable outcome for the U.S.

Eisenhower pledged his continued support for Diem during Diem's 10-day visit to the U.S. in May 1957 and remained committed to Diem's government throughout his second term as president . As a matter of fact, he increased the number of U.S. military advisors in South Vietnam to around 900 men by 1960 owing to North Vietnam's growing support of "uprisings" in the south.

2. John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)

John F. Kennedy was an ardent believer in containing communism and "Domino Theory". In his first speech as President in January 1961, Kennedy made it clear that he would continue the policy of the former President, Dwight Eisenhower, and support the government of Diem in South Vietnam.

Kennedy also pledged more aid and military advisors to help train South Vietnamese Army. As a matter of fact, the U.S. provided $65 million in military equipment and $136 million in economic aid to Diem's government by 1961.

During Kennedy's presidency, the Strategic Hamlet Program introduced by Diem and supported by the U.S. failed terribly, and as a result, drove a large number of South Vietnamese peasants into supporting the Viet Cong. In fact, the number of Viet Cong increased tremendously by 300% to 17,000 in just two years when the "Strategic Hamlet" was in operation. In response, Kennedy significantly increased U.S. military advisors in South Vietnam to 16,000 by 1963 compared to just 3,200 in 1961.

Kennedy's presidency also saw Diem's repression of Buddhists after their public protests throughout South Vietnam owing to his religious favoritism and discrimination.

As corruption, Buddhist crisis, and mounting successes by the Viet Cong weakened Diem's regime and threatened the stability of South Vietnam, Kennedy became convinced that Diem could never unite South Vietnam to fight against the Viet Cong. On November 1, 1963, Kennedy tacitly approved a coup to overthrow Diem just three weeks before his assassination.

3. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963 - 1969)

After assuming the presidency, Johnson was keen to continue supporting South Vietnam to fight against the Viet Cong. In the beginning, Johnson hesitated to commit U.S. troops to Vietnam as he was aware that U.S. military intervention might have an adverse impact on his chance of winning the 1964 election. In fact, during his campaign for President in 1964, he pledged not to send "American boys" to Vietnam and that South Vietnamese Army had to fight to protect its country.

But then came the the Gulf of Tonkin incident. In response, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution on August 7, 1964 authorizing President Johnson to take any necessary measures against North Vietnam.

Soon after Johnson won the 1964 presidential election by a landslide, he ordered a sustained bombing of North Vietnam called "Operation Rolling Thunder", which lasted for more than 3 years (March 2, 1965 - November 1, 1968). He then sent the first combat troops to South Vietnam in March 1965 in response to a Viet Cong's attack on U.S. air base in Pleiku.

During his presidency, Johnson constantly increased the number of U.S. troops deployed to Vietnam, which peaked at more than 500,000 in 1968. Despite mounting U.S. casualties as well as massive nationwide protests against and conflict in Vietnam, Johnson refused to bring the troops home stating that he did not want to become "the first American President to lose a war."

By the end of his second term as president, his approval rates plunged to an all-time low as the end of the Vietnam War was nowhere in sight after the Viet Cong's Tet Offensive. On March 31, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, Johnson announced he would not seek reelection.

In May 1968, Johnson announced formal peace talks would soon begin in Paris. The talks stalled during the last eight months of Johnson's presidency, and the deadlock continued during the early years of Nixon's administration.

4. Richard Nixon (1969 -1974)

Richard Nixon took office in 1969 with the promise of bringing "peace with honor" to the unpopular conflict in Vietnam. His "secret plan" to end the Vietnam War included gradual withdrawals of the U.S. troops from Vietnam as part of the so-called "Vietnamization" program from June 1969. He also replaced the military draft with a lottery in December of that year.

However, Nixon, at the same time, secretly escalated the war into Cambodia and Laos in 1970 and 1971 respectively in an attempt to destroy North Vietnamese supply through the Ho Chi Minh Trail to South Vietnam. Fallout from these incursions caused massive protests, which even escalated to violence at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.

At the end of his first term as president, Nixon made a historic visit to China in February followed by a strategic Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviets in May 1972. These diplomatic breakthroughs with China and Soviet Union put pressure on North Vietnam to negotiate seriously and secured Nixon's landslide victory in his re-election.

Nixon ordered the "Christmas Bombing" later that year to keep North Vietnam at the negotiating table as well as to convince South Vietnam to sign a peace treaty, which had been negotiated for a few years. The Paris Peace Accords were eventually signed in January 1973 ending the American direct involvement in Vietnam. On March 29, 1973, the last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam although some military advisors and Marines remained in Saigon until its fall in April 1975. Nixon also ended military draft in his final year in office.

Nixon became the first U.S. President ever to resign after the Watergate scandal in 1974.

5. Gerald R. Ford (1974 - 1977)

Congress cut military aid to South Vietnam significantly during Ford's presidency. In fact, it placed a $1 billion ceiling on military aid for fiscal year 1974 on August 4, which was trimmed further to $700 million by August 11, 1974. This was a huge cut in military aid as South Vietnam still received $2.8 billion in fiscal year 1973. In 1975, it would be dropped substantially to just $300 million.

Although it had been promised by the Nixon administration, Congress also forbade further U.S. involvement in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia even when North Vietnamese forces blatantly violated the settlement in early 1975.

In April 1975, as South Vietnam was about to fall, President Ford made a last-ditch appeal to Congress asking for $722 million in military aid to essentially save the crumbling regime. However, in a face-to-face discussion between President Ford and Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 14, 1975, the President's request for aid was rejected. "I will give you large sums for evacuation, but not one nickel for military aid to Thieu ." - New York Senator Jacob Javits told President Ford during the meeting.

On April 23, 1975, Ford declared the Vietnam War ended "as far as America is concerned". Seven days later, Saigon was captured and South Vietnam fell to the communists.

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Who were U.S Presidents during the Vietnam War? - The Vietnam War

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There were 5 U.S. Presidents during its involvement in the Vietnam War. They were: 1. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) Following the French defeat in the First Indochina War and subsequently the Geneva Accords leading to a partition of Vietnam, President Eisenhower decided to support anti-communist leader Ngo Dinh Diem in consolidating power in the South.

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May 7, 1954: Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh forces defeat the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, effectively ending the 7 ½-year Indochina War.

July 1954: At a conference in Geneva, world powers agree to a divided Vietnam.

Communists, led by Ho Chi Minh, control the North. The United States eventually supports an anticommunist government led by Ngo Dinh Diem in the South.

Sept. 10, 1960: Le Duan replaces Ho Chi Minh as First Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party in Hanoi.

Nov. 8, 1960: John F. Kennedy beats Richard Nixon in the U.S. presidential election; Lyndon B. Johnson is vice president.

Dec. 20, 1960: Southern revolutionaries, backed by the North Vietnamese Communist Party, form the National Liberation Front, known in Saigon and Washington as the Viet Cong.

June 11, 1963: Self immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in Saigon sparks outrage around the world and brings attention to the developing conflict.

Nov. 1-2, 1963: President Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu are murdered during a coup by dissident generals of the South Vietnamese army.

Nov. 22, 1963: Kennedy is assassinated and Johnson is sworn in as president.

Aug. 2-4, 1964: Two supposed incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin lead Johnson to seek congressional approval for direct U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

March 8, 1965: First Marines land in Danang.

Nov. 14-18, 1965: In the Ia Drang Valley, American troops fight their first large scale battles against the North Vietnamese Army.

April 15 and Oct. 21, 1967: Hundreds of thousands of antiwar protesters gather for demonstrations in New York's Central Park and in Washington.

Summer 1967 to Spring 1968: During a series of "border battles" in the remote locations of Dak To, Con Thien and Khe Sanh, U.S. Army and Marines face relentless onslaughts from North Vietnamese.

Jan. 31, 1968: During the Tet Offensive, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launch surprise attacks against targets throughout South Vietnam.

February 1968: In the ancient imperial capital of Hue, communist forces execute at least 2,800 people, mostly South Vietnamese civilians.

March 16, 1968: Over the course of four hours, American soldiers kill more than 500 unarmed civilians in and around the hamlet of My Lai.

March 31, 1968: Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.

Nov. 5, 1968: Nixon is elected president, promising to end the war in Vietnam.

Oct. 15, 1969: The first Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, a series of mass demonstrations across the United States, take place; a second happens on Nov. 15.

Nov. 3, 1969: Nixon goes on television to call for national solidarity on the Vietnam War effort, appealing to a "silent majority" to support his policies.

May 4, 1970: Four days after Nixon announced the expansion of the war into Cambodia, four students at Kent State are shot by National Guardsmen during a protest.

Feb. 8 - March 25, 1971: The South Vietnamese launch operation Lam Son 719 against North Vietnamese forces in Laos, which ends in their hasty retreat and defeat.

March 30 - Oct. 22, 1972: The Easter Offensive invasion by North Vietnamese forces is successfully repelled by South Vietnamese.

Jan. 27, 1973: Cease-fire agreement is reached between U.S. and North Vietnam, U.S. POWs begin to return home.

March 29, 1973: Last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam.

Aug. 9, 1974: Nixon leaves office.

April 30, 1975: Saigon falls.

Nov. 13, 1982: Opening of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall.

July 1995: Under President Bill Clinton, the U.S. normalizes relations with Vietnam.
More: More: Why Ken Burns decided this was the time to make a Vietnam War documentary The Vietnam War: Why it was the conflict that no one wanted to talk about

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Vietnam War: A timeline of U.S. entanglement

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May 7, 1954: Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh forces defeat the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, effectively ending the 7 ½-year Indochina War. July 1954: At a conference in Geneva, world powers agree to a divided Vietnam. Communists, led by Ho Chi Minh, control the North.

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Morris is the main character in my book. 

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Morris is the main character in my book. 

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Brian saves people in San Francisco which gives him glory and pride and a life and some new friends.

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Brian saves people in San Francisco which gives him glory and pride and a life and some new friends.

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The area surrounding the community is an agricultural haven. This makes the main characters weathered and resistant to the racist people they meet. 

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The area surrounding the community is an agricultural haven. This makes the main characters weathered and resistant to the racist people they meet. 

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Quiet and cold, so the protagonists are usually in their house, or in the bedrooms, doing various things.

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Quiet and cold, so the protagonists are usually in their house, or in the bedrooms, doing various things.

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Somewhere in the US

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One of the important people in my book is Buddy Bush. He is born in the area, but he moved to Harlem and then came back for unknown reasons. His experience up north makes him feel ashamed about how the African-American people in the neighborhood are treated.

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One of the important people in my book is Buddy Bush. He is born in the area, but he moved to Harlem and then came back for unknown reasons. His experience up north makes him feel ashamed about how the African-American people in the neighborhood are treated.

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Southern USA (North Carolina). The location of my book is an agricultural setting that is very prejudiced. 

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Southern USA (North Carolina). The location of my book is an agricultural setting that is very prejudiced. 

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The protagonists in the story are Bob and Phyllis.

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The protagonists in the story are Bob and Phyllis.

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Brian is the main character. He saves many people for glory and pride.

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Brian is the main character. He saves many people for glory and pride.

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The event that I am reading about was the trial of Buddy Bush. This was one of the events that led to the start of the Civil Rights Movement. 

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The event that I am reading about was the trial of Buddy Bush. This was one of the events that led to the start of the Civil Rights Movement. 