When did the Vietnam war officially start???
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There was no official start to Viet Nam war. It started back in about 1954 for the United States, that is about the time that the French pulled out. They had come to the conclusion that it was to costly and a lost cause. We sent advisers in at first. Kennedy continued with the advisers and Johnson Sent in the most troupes to actually fight the war that was about 1964 or 1965 Nixon got us out of there finally about 1973 or 1974, those are as close as I can come to dates from memory.
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If you find something please let me know, feel free to E-mail me, I'm in Vietnam for 19 Years, my Dad was in the war but do not know much about him, I do want to find some but do not know where to start.\nmailt4@yahoo.com
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It was a civil war of sorts, because after the Second World War Ho Chi Minh had taken power in North Vietnam, using this power base to try to evict France from all of Indochina and after Dien Bien Phu when France did withdraw a UN agreement split Indochina into four parts. This is where the civil war began, the Communists under Ho Chi Minh had a great deal of prestige because they had been a fairly successful opponent against the Japanese, while the US had recruited known collaborators for their puppet South Vietnam (similar to how the two Koreas were set up). While the regime in the north was brutal, the one in the south became even worse.\n\nThe US continued its support to the South Vietnamese government, but it never actually confronted the south about cleaning up its act, which continued to make it vulnerable to lose support from the people.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam#History go look at this site. I'm Vietnamese and just moved here 5 years ago. According to the news, Vietnam is a growing country. Our President George Bush visited Vietnam (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/11/19/bush.asia.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories).  We got our independence from the French but i do not recall the year. The Vietnamese contributed music, culture, and food as their achievements to America. (http://www.vietamreview.net/)
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I do not understand exactly what you mean, but I suspect you are asking when did large numbers of Vietnamese come to Australia. Obviously, there were probably a few people from many different countries in Australia, but this probably wouldn't require the question you ask. So, when you refer to when, I will take it you mean large numbers.\n\nAfter the Americans (and some of its allies) left Vietnam in  1975, there was no one to fight against the Communist North Vietnamese who were waging war against the South. We were fighting against the North and when we left, there was no one to help the Southerners. Eventually, financial support and training also was removed from the South, while the North was receiving all it needed from it's allies. The North was simply to strong for the South and the North won. The northerners began to kill many from the south. The Southerners took to the sea in small fragile boats to escape the bloodshed. Hundreds of thousands fled. Many of these people wound up in Australia and in the United States. \n\nThis was after 1975. Many of these people weren't automatically given citizenship, but they were still living in countries like Australia, which is just to the south of Vietnam. It took in about 300,000 Vietnamese.\n\nThis is all from my general knowledge, but here is a good site that can explain some of the events.
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If the administration would have allowed unrestricted bombing of North Vietnam from the beginning of the war. I'd said 1 and 3. But seeing how Johnson wanted to approve every target, the best choice would be none of the above.The bombing was too little too late.
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Try here:\n\nhttp://www.vietquoc.com/news2002/na020202.htm
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On November 8th, 1965, the 173rd Airborne Brigade on Operation Hump, in Vietnam, were ambushed by over 1200 V.C. \n\nForty-eight American soldiers lost their lives that day.\n\nqbqbqb, I hate to break the news to a historian, but there's no such thing as a "VC Regular." There's VC (Viet Cong, Victor Charley, which was like a militia) and there's NVA (NVA Regular Army). The the case of the Ia Drang Valley, those were NVA.\n\nTOYS 'R' US KID, don't mind what sgt_k says, you're welcome to your opinion. I'd like to see 'em come home too.
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Yahoo Search Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. That might help. You'll find out more doing it that way instead of this Yahoo Answers because all you'll get is a bunch of BS.
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Fialko David Andrew Jr  PFC  Marines  Bridgeport  CT  November 14, 1968  S.Vietnam  December 4, 1949  hostile, killed \nSOURCE: Combat Area Casualties Current Files (CACCF) (machine-readable record), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330.  \n\nOnly 19 years old..... *sigh*\n\nYou may find these sites helpful as a beginning (in order of relevance, the first one contained the above):\nhttp://www.accessgenealogy.com/military/vietnam.php\nhttp://www.geocities.com/tlwolf98/marine16.html\nhttp://www.vetfriends.com/?source=google500c\nhttp://members.aol.com/veterans/warlib64.htm\n\nMany states maintain an archive such as this:\nhttp://www.archives.gov/research/vietnam-war/casualty-lists/nv-alpha.html\n\n\nHowever, the US depatment of Veteran's Affairs will be the place to request detailed information from. Remember, they will only be likely to provide information already available to the public. If you know what state David was from, you can contact the department local to him.
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You are probably too young to remember the 60s.  College students were instrumental in ending the Vietnam war.  VOTE!! and be active in politics.  Anyone who does not vote has no right to complain (in my eyes).
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"The Mỹ Lai Massacre was a massacre committed by U.S. soldiers of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children, on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. It prompted widespread outrage around the world and reduced American support at home for the war in Vietnam."\n\n\nGet a good start at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre
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Yes. The USSR & its communist satellite countries in the Warsaw pact such as the then East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia etc. were either directly or indirectly involved in the Vietnam war. They were either financial supporters, weapon suppliers, & military training providers & advisors for the NVA (North Vietnam Army).
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I served in Vietnam from mid 1967 to Oct 1968.\nWas drafted and felt an obligation to serve.\nMy dad was in WWII for three years, his older brother was killed  in Europe and younger brother served during Korea. Grandpa was in WWI.  I went willingly to what was shaping up as a questionable war because I believed it was necessary to resist the spread of communism. I have since learned our presence in Vietnam did a lot of good. The communists spent so much time and resources in Vietnam they couldn't exert their influence elsewhere. So we did stop them from spreading through Asia.\n\nNone of my family knew it until I started searching our family history about seven years ago, GG-grampa served in the civil war.  GGGG-grampa was in the revoluitionary war and was attached to General George Washingtons' party.  So, it seems my ancestors have served in every major conflict that came along.
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In January, 1968 (I think) the North Vietnamese Army along with the Viet Cong launched an offensive against US and South Vietnamese positions throughout South Vietnam on the holiday of Tet.  While the offensive was a military disaster for the NVA & VC, it so rattled the American public that the anti-war effort got the impetus it needed to eventually cause the US to abandon Viet Nam.
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End of War?\nApril 23, 1975 - President Gerald Ford gave a speech on declaring the end of the Vietnam War and the end of all U.S. aid to the Saigon regime.\n\nApril 30, 1975 - At 8:35 a.m., 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.\n\nHowever, the last official U.S. battle in the conflict was on May 15, 1975 when 18 soldiers were killed on the last day of a rescue operation known as the Mayagüez incident involving a skirmish with the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Those soldiers are listed last on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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The Causes of the Vietnam War\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAndrew J. Rotter\n\nMost American wars have obvious starting points or precipitating causes: the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, the capture of Fort Sumter in 1861, the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the North Korean invasion of South Korea in June 1950, for example. But there was no fixed beginning for the U.S. war in Vietnam. The United States entered that war incrementally, in a series of steps between 1950 and 1965. In May 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to the French, who were fighting to retain control of their Indochina colony, including Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam. When the Vietnamese Nationalist (and Communist-led) Vietminh army defeated French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954, the French were compelled to accede to the creation of a Communist Vietnam north of the 17th parallel while leaving a non-Communist entity south of that line. The United States refused to accept the arrangement. The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower undertook instead to build a nation from the spurious political entity that was South Vietnam by fabricating a government there, taking over control from the French, dispatching military advisers to train a South Vietnamese army, and unleashing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct psychological warfare against the North.\n\nPresident John F. Kennedy rounded another turning point in early 1961, when he secretly sent 400 Special Operations Forces-trained (Green Beret) soldiers to teach the South Vietnamese how to fight what was called counterinsurgency war against Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam. When Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, there were more than 16,000 U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam, and more than 100 Americans had been killed. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, committed the United States most fully to the war. In August 1964, he secured from Congress a functional (not actual) declaration of war: the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Then, in February and March 1965, Johnson authorized the sustained bombing, by U.S. aircraft, of targets north of the 17th parallel, and on 8 March dispatched 3,500 Marines to South Vietnam. Legal declaration or no, the United States was now at war.\n\nThe multiple starting dates for the war complicate efforts to describe the causes of U.S. entry. The United States became involved in the war for a number of reasons, and these evolved and shifted over time. Primarily, every American president regarded the enemy in Vietnam--the Vietminh; its 1960s successor, the National Liberation Front (NLF); and the government of North Vietnam, led by *Ho Chi Minh--as agents of global communism. U.S. policymakers, and most Americans, regarded communism as the antithesis of all they held dear. Communists scorned democracy, violated human rights, pursued military aggression, and created closed state economies that barely traded with capitalist countries. Americans compared communism to a contagious disease. If it took hold in one nation, U.S. policymakers expected contiguous nations to fall to communism, too, as if nations were dominoes lined up on end. In 1949, when the Communist Party came to power in China, Washington feared that Vietnam would become the next Asian domino. That was one reason for Truman's 1950 decision to give aid to the French who were fighting the Vietminh,\n\nTruman also hoped that assisting the French in Vietnam would help to shore up the developed, non-Communist nations, whose fates were in surprising ways tied to the preservation of Vietnam and, given the domino theory, all of Southeast Asia. Free world dominion over the region would provide markets for Japan, rebuilding with American help after the Pacific War. U.S. involvement in Vietnam reassured the British, who linked their postwar recovery to the revival of t