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Harry Truman sent military advisors to South Vietnam to help with the First Indochina war. -
Trying to stop communism in Vietnam and the nearby countries the United States sent troops to Vietnam only for the sole purpose of helping train the soldiers to increase the chances of winning the conflict. -
JFK was killed making the future unknown for what he would have done -
On Air Force 1 LBJ got sworn in after JFK was killed changing how the war was going to go. -
The US help the South Vietnamese in a night operation in the northern territory. -
The United States was in enemy water and a Vietnamese gunboats started firing at the us. -
false torpedos were spotted in the water during a storm and made the US. think they were being fired upon and made the United States involved in the war. -
LBJ got permission from Congress to win the battle with whatever it took and started a trend in wars where presidents are in control more than Congress. -
The United States started to realize the Vietnamese were guerilla fighters so they started bombing the forest. -
LBJ ordered to have troop go to Vietnam and engage in combat with North Vietnamese. They arrived at Da Nang. -
LBJ wanted to have a lot more ground troops to help win the war and it made us more involved in the war. -
The first major battle was between the United States and the North Vietnamese.