What day did the Vietnam War start?

Answer 1

POSSIBLE START DATES FOR THE WAR:


1. Sept. 27, 1950 -- U.S. establishes the Military Assistance Advisory Group, Indochina (MAAG) in Saigon to aid the French military (the French had been fighting communist rebels in Vietnam, their pre-WWII colony, since 1945).


2. November 1, 1955 -- The U.S. redesignates MAAG, Indochina, as MAAG, Vietnam to specify its new direct combat advisory role with the South Vietnamese Army. The U.S. essentially took over the advisory role from the French, who were leaving Vietnam after their defeat at Diem Bien Phu in 1954. The Department of Defense views this date as the earliest qualifying date for inclusion on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.


3. March 1959 -- Ho Chi Minh declares a People's War to unite all of Vietnam under his leadership. His Politburo orders a changeover to an all-out military struggle. From the comnmunist perspective, the "Vietnam War" against the U.S. has now officially started.


4. December 11, 1961 -- U.S. aircraft carrier "Core" arrives in Saigon with 33 helicopters and 400 air and ground crewmen assigned to operate them for the South Vietnamese Army. Also, U.S. pilots start to train & fly support missions with the South Vietnamese Air Force. This reall marks the first larger scale participation of U.S. military "advisors".


5. August 7, 1964 -- In response to the incidents involving U.S> naval vessels U.S.S. Maddox and the U.S.S. Turner Joy, the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly passes the "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution," allowing the President "to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force" to prevent further attacks against U.S. forces. Many people view this as the "official" start of the war, although there was never a declaration of war.


6. March 8, 1965 -- The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam, as 3500 Marines land at China Beach to defend the American air base at Da Nang. They join 23,000 American military advisors already in Vietnam. The arrival of combat troops is considered by some the start of the war, although American military advisors have been in Vietnam for over 10 years.

For the US, the start date would have to be around July of 1961. A US battalion was on patrol in the South China sea when President Kennedy ordered them to Laos.

Answer 2

November 1, 1955 - Eisenhower deploys the Military Assistance Advisory Group to train the South Vietnam Army. This marks the official beginning of American involvement in the war as recognized by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Answer 3

I believe the Vietnamese people speak of it as The Thirty Years War which would take it back to the early Forties when the French Colonialists were driven out by the Japanese.

The French returned after WWII and tried to re-claim their colony by bringing in their Foreign Legion which was defeated by the Viet Cong in 1954.

North Vietnam began incursions shortly thereafter and by the mid-fifties American troops arrived to help the South Vietnamese government with American Advisors to the South Vietnamese Military.

That esculated until the American Forces left in 1970 when the boundaries between North and South Viet Nam were agreed upon and fixed. Two years after all American forces left Viet Nam, the North Vietnamese, in violation of the Treaty, attacked south amd defeated the South Vietnamese military and took over the entre country.

Answer 4

It has never been a war -- it was a conflict.

The question of who would control Vietnam was complicated by the disposition of the various allied occupation forces at the end of World War II. Control of Indochina at the end of the war was divided between British and Chinese areas of occupation. The Chinese army arrived in the north a few days after Hồ Chí Minh's ceremony in September, 1945, and took over areas north of the 16th parallel. The British arrived in the south in October and supervised the surrender and departure of the Japanese army from Indochina south of the 16th parallel.

Answer 5

The French Indo China owned Vietnam in the late 1940's but they were taking over by the communists(the Vietmings)So thats why the US had to come in to try and bring peace but they never did it.

Answer 6

November 1, 1955 was the day that USA get involve with the war.

Answer 7

actually it started between North and South Vietnam during the Korean conflict us had advisers over there in 1958 or 59 and troops over their in 1961 until 1975.....

Answer 8

there is no official day.i think the year is generally accepted to be 1964 or 1965.we were pretty involved then.our involvement began during the Eisenhower administration.it was a slow escalation.

Answer 9

Friday?

Answer 10

To stop the communist invasion of a democractic nation