2006-12-10 07:14:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Technically, the US entered the war in 1946 when we started supplying the French with weapons to fight the peoples of Southeast Asia. We were introducing non uniformed personnel in the 1950's. It wasn't until the Kennedy administration that we started sending "advisors" in without cloaking our activities. The real shooting war could be said to have started in 1965 when we started bombing the place.
2006-12-10 07:25:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
In the late 50s, President Eisenhower sent field advisors to Vietnam. Only in the hundreds. When Kennedy was president, he did likewise. Some but not many. When Lyndon Baines Johnson because president following Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Johnson escalated the war. By 1965, the USA was fully involved.
2006-12-10 15:28:27 · answer #2 · answered by mac 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Go to www.history.com because, it was not called a war. To further understand the engagement of the conflict you have to go back to when President John F. Kennedy sent American soldiers,(training troops only), to help the Vietnamese to defend themselves from the aggressive attacks by their own people who were a part of the opposing government to freedom, and they were called the Red Chinese Government. Then when Kennedy was assassinated, President Lyndon B. Johnson took office, the conflict was worse, and for what ever ridiculous reasons we sent more and more and more Soldiers to their death.
2006-12-10 15:27:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Complete timeline http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1945.html
2006-12-10 15:29:07 · answer #4 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
never! it was never a war it was a conflictt but we entered that conflictt in 1950
2006-12-10 15:56:00 · answer #5 · answered by ryan s 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1941
2006-12-10 15:22:14 · answer #6 · answered by summerglow 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋