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In the 1950s the US started sending troops to Vietnam. It lasted about 25 years. In that 25 year period the ensuring war would create some of the strongest tension in the US. It took fifty eight thousand lives. Only the Civil War and two World Wars were deadlier for our American people. Johnson sent 3 million US men and women to Vietnam to fight for an questionable cause. |
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| Between 1955 and 1960 the Northern Vietnamese without help from Vietcong tried to take control over the government in South Vietnam and in November 1863 president Diem was over thrown and then was killed. After that Vietnamese began a hard drive on or near Conquer all of the country aided by China and Russia. Harry S. Truman and other Americans felt really sorry for the French colonialism. So they decided to favor the Vietnamese Independents. |
| Dwight D Eisenhower increased the level of aid to French and he also keep trying to avoid any military intervention, even when the French went through a devastation defeat at Dien Bien Phu in the spring of 1954. Eisenhower educated the "domino theory," it held that if the communist succeeded in taking over or controlling Vietnam, they would hopefully progressively dominated all of southeast Asia. |
| By 1963 John F Kennedy had tripled American aid to southern Vietnam and expanded the number of military advisers to the area from less than 16 hundred to more than 16 thousand. |
| The participation in the Vietnam began in 1964. The US grew more and more wary or the progress or Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong. The US did not want them to go any further than they all ready have. During that same time their was the a cold war. It was the leaders would try to create tensions with the Chinese and the Russians that would ,in turn lead to a larger conflict and possibly www111. That lead to many many internal conflicts. The treasury spent over 140 billion dollars on the war that enough money to fund urban renewal projects in every major American city. Corruption was wide spread among officials and the armed forces. |  |
| The large -scale involvement of the US came under the tensor of president Lynden B Johnson and his Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Johnson had took John F Kennedy's place after he was assassinated in Dallas Texas in 1963. His goal was to pressure a separate independents, non communist government in South Vietnam, but after April 1975, the communist democratic republic of Vietnam drv ruled the entire nation. |
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About the air Force On March 2 1965 operation Rolling Thunder commenced a sustained bombing campaign intended to place increasing pressure to the Northern Vietnamese leadership to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the war. Rolling Thunder continued from 1965 to 1965. In all, the US flew 304,000 fighters over North Vietnam, bombers attacked in formation of three using the same altitudes and traces at evenly spaced internals. They lost 922 air craft and dropping 634,000 ton bombs. B-52's flew a total of 729 sorties and dropped 15,000 tons of bombs- losing 15 of their own plans. Over 1,600 military structures were hit and 10 air fields that were put out of operation. Around 3 million gallons of oil and fuel were torched |
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Andrew Foxhoven 8th American History Rossville Jr. High Post-World War II American Project May 2002
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