As it turns out we were involved in Viet Nam much sooner than many thought.
President Eisenhower was the first to put our military personnel in Viet Nam in the late nineteen fifties. We were there until Nixon finally called it quits in the early nineteen seventies.
Many believe that we were drawn into the Viet Nam conflict because of an attack by North Viet Nam on a US American ship in the Gulf of Tonken when John Kennedy was President.
This attack did not occur according to a later confession by General Westmorland however it was considered necessary to lead the US American public to believe we needed to enter that conflict.
Officially, from 1965 to 1975. However, US troops had been involved in Vietnam since 1955.
1955 to apr. 30 1975
'55-'75
Vietnamization
Vietnam. The last US troops left Vietnam in 1975.
Vietnamization.
Basically, the Vietnamese sides, north and south, each had allies and supporters. These allies joined with the troops in Vietnam. The US was on the side of the south. They lost.
Yes, US covert operations, as well as communists fighting the Cambodian government; but they were insurgents. Not regular troops from another country, like was happening in Vietnam. The NVA were regular soldiers from North Vietnam moving thru neutral countries such as Laos and Cambodia-the US was at war with them! Cambodia/Laos were being USED. Then...Laos/Cambodia had their own home-grown communists fighting against them; insurgents. The US was too busy fighting regular troops from Hanoi.
US Servicemen had been fighting communists in South Vietnam since 1955.
The us slowly pulled the troops out and handed the fighting over to the south vietnamese army
Vietnam, North and South Korea. Northern Africa
Vietnamization
Well before any US troops were sent to Vietnam. The Korean Conflict kicked off in 1950, and the ceasefire was signed in 1953 (although the conflict remains ongoing). The first American troops didn't arrive in Vietnam until 1954.
Why US troops at Thailand tdy's in Vietnam 1962?
Yes, but the anti-war people outnumbered (and where more out-spoken) than the supporters.
The US asked them to.
Vietnam. The last US troops left Vietnam in 1975.
South Korea,Thailand,Australia,New Zealand,maybe more
Vietnamization.
U.S troops never went to North Vietnam, that would have been an act of war and would have dragged the Chinese and the Soviets into the conflict.