What year did the Vietnam War start and end, 1961-1973 or 1965-1973?

Answer 1

If you are talking about American soldiers, discounting advisors, on Vietnamese Soil, it would be '65-73. Prior to 1965, we had several hundred advisors in South Vietnam telling the government had to deal with both the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong (Insurgents in South Vietnam with aid from North Vietnam). In 1971 we dramatically cut the number of soldiers from 400K to 150K when we basically began bombing Vietnam back to the stone age.

Prior to the U.S. presence in Vietnam, all of Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand) was a French colony. Ho Chi Minh set up a democratic government in all of Vietnam. The French and U.S. did not recognize this government, and the French went to war in Vietnam with U.S. funding about 3/4's of the war. An international conference in Geneva split Vietnam in two countries in 1956, with Ho Chi Minh's communist government in North Vietnam, and a corrupt dictatorship led by Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam. It is at this time that the U.S. sent it's military advisors. Eventually Dinh Diem was assasinated and Viet Cong aided by North Vietnam began fighting the South Vietnamese Government.

Answer 2

With so many answers to your questions - I suggest you read Mangy Coyote's answer. The war started between the Vietnamese and the French earlier than either 1961 or 1965.
The American involvement came in late 1961 - President J.F. Kennedy decided to eventually send 16,000 military advisers to Vietnam.

Answer 3

Technically, the Tehran Agreement during WW2, when Stalin promised to back off the Middle East region (Iraq, Iran, oddly enough) and "Indochina", which he reneged on obviously when teh Korean War began (and most of his air force and pilots were fighting us disguised as North Koreans), by the Eisenhower administration had American "advisors" there when the French were combatting the communists, then Kennedy sent in a whole mess of the military during a flood situation, and then LBJ made a full blown but diplomatically restrained war out of it. When you get down to it, we are still dealing with the failure of the Tehran Agreement today.

Answer 4

According to wikipedia, It was 1959-1975. I used to watch the History Channel a lot, and I was going to say that 1961 sounds about the right time that America sent military advisors to Vietnam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war

Answer 5

Actually 1945 - 1975. American involvement from 1950 - 1975.

Vietnam war actually started in 1945. on 2 September, 1945, Ho Chi Minh declares indepence for Vietnam. The British arrived first to aid French colonials, sending in troops. Over the next few years, the French would also send troops. At the same time, China sent some 150,000 troops into North Vietnam. President Harry Truman first ordered US troops to Vietnam on 30 June 1950. President Eisenhower escalates the number of troops greatly in 1953. By the end of 1956, the last French troops had withdrawn. In 1959, the first American troops were killed. In 1961, President Kennedy sent 400 Green Berets to Vietnam as "Special Advisors." Kennedy would send an additional 16,000 troops by the end of 1963. President Johnson would continue to increase US presence in Vietnam throughout his term; there would be 495,000 US troops and 30,000 American deaths. President Nixon sends in additional troops to end the conflict; a peak of 543,4000 troops were in-country in April 1969. 33,461 Americans have died there, surpassing deaths in the Korean war. In May, 1969, Nixon proposed a peace plan, and began the withdrawal of US troops. By 30 November 1972, US troop withdrawal is complete, but there are still over 16,000 US "Advisors" left in Vietnam. In January 1973, the last American soldier to officially die in combat in Vietnam, Lt. Col. William B. Nolde, is killed. The task of retrieving POWs commences. During 25 years of military involvement, over 2 million Americans served in Vietnam with 500,000 seeing actual combat. 47,244 were killed in action, including 8000 airmen. There were 10,446 non-combat deaths. 153,329 were seriously wounded, including 10,000 amputees. Over 2400 American POWs/MIAs were unaccounted for as of 1973. At 8:35am, 30 April 1975, the last Americans, ten Marines from the embassy, depart Saigon, concluding the United States presence in Vietnam. North Vietnamese troops pour into Saigon and encounter little resistance. By 11 a.m., the red and blue Viet Cong flag flies from the presidential palace. President Minh broadcasts a message of unconditional surrender. The war is over.

Answer 6

Actually it was from 1959-1973

Answer 7

1959-1973

Answer 8

The start date can't be 1965 since it was already underway when Kennedy was in office. He died in 1963.

Answer 9

well "techincally" i believe it was 65-75, but america was involved since 58