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The Causes of the Vietnam War

Vietnam War Facts

Statistics

How America Got Involved

The End of the War

There was a total of 58,148 people who died in the Vietnam War.There was a total of 6,598 that were officers.

The Vietnam War was a very costly war. It not only affected those in battles, but it also left behind long term effects on people everywhere in the world. It was an extremely costly war with over 58,000 Americans dead and over 150,000 wounded in battle. Many Americans were affected by the war for so many had died and many more were wounded. North Vietnam was victorious over South Vietnam and allied forces. The Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 marked the end of a very bloody war.

The Vietnam War took place right after the Korean War, and it was considered to be a part of the Cold War. The Vietnam War was surely one that many people remember as it took over a period of nearly nineteen years, from 1955 to 1975. The conflict took place in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Just like the Korean War, the Vietnam War was between the Northern and Southern division of the country. Both nations had their supporting Allies and nations, which came with financial support and military support. The third party nations brought in additional military equipment on their own, so that Vietnam would need none.

Johnson was the central figure when it comes to the US involvement in Vietnam. His vision was to stop the spread of communist aggression, and others shared this theory like Eisenhower, Kennedy and Truman. In the year 1964, the Northern Vietnamese apparently attacked two US destroyers. Thus, in the year 1965, the US began regularly bombing the Northern railroads, bridges and oil facilities as well as the HaiPhong harbor.

With the Vietcong attack of a US base in Pleiku, the Americans were now fully involved and Operation Flaming dart came next. In April of the year 1965, Johnson was all set to Americanize this Vietnam War and sent more than 40 thousand troops to Vietnam. By mid June, Johnson was told to send in more troops in order to prevent South Vietnam's collapse. Thus America had to plunge directly into the war, which was a better option at that time than facing defeat.

The United States entered that war incrementally, in a series of steps between 1950 and 1965. In May 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to the French, who were fighting to retain control of their Indochina colony, including Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam. When the Vietnamese Nationalist (and Communist-led) Vietminh army defeated French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954, the French were compelled to accede to the creation of a Communist Vietnam north of the 17th parallel while leaving a non-Communist entity south of that line. The United States refused to accept the arrangement. The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower undertook instead to build a nation from the spurious political entity that was South Vietnam by fabricating a government there, taking over control from the French, dispatching military advisers to train a South Vietnamese army, and unleashing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct psychological warfare against the North.

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