5 Feb 1955 Jahr - Vietnam War

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Presidents During this war: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and LBJ

The war known as the one that shouldn't have happened. This is the longest American War.
Kennedy continued the pattern of escalation established by Truman Eisenhower. While refusing to send combat personnel, Kennedy increased the number of advisors, from 2,000 to more than 16,000 while in office.US’s main role was to train and support the ARVN in the war against the Viet Cong and the NVA.

On August 2 and 4, 1964 North Vietnamese patrol boats attacked two destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. President LBJ lied about the Tonkin Gulf incident to America.

The resolution gave President Johnson great latitude to carry out the war in Vietnam as he saw fit. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution led to the American militarization of the conflict.
Six months after, the US began Operation Rolling Thunder, the sustained bombing of North Vietnam to stop the flow of men and materials into the South.

As the draft for the war carried on, they began to pick more and more young men with the lottery through what was known as the blue capsules.

Combat Strategies included:
* Free Fire Zones
* Search and Destroy
* Body Counts
* Bombing
* Napalm
* Agent Orange
* Operation Phoenix
* Strategic Hamlets

TET Offensive: The Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam.

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