Eisenhower believed in the domino theory that justified intervention in Vietnam and
he sent advisors to support the non-Communist government there. Kennedy greatly increased the military aid sent to Vietnam and had the US deeply involved there.
Johnson then escalated the War greatly. So, you could say that Eisenhower started it, Kennedy made it inevitable and Johnson really made it a war.
Lyndon B. Johnson was President when the US started using regular forces in Vietnam. Dwight Eisenhower sent in military advisers to train Vietnamese.
The Vietnam war ended in 1975, Gerald Ford was president.
Vietnam was not a war it was an action.
The United States went into war with Vietnam in the year 1965.
President Carter did not support the amnesty for men who left the US to avoid the draft during the Vietnam war due to his will to win the war and defeat Vietnam.
The Vietnam war began as a war of nationalism, with the Vietnamese their French colonial powers for independence following World War II. The United States became involved in the struggle out of fear that the new country would be Communist. The Vietnamese scored a decisive victory over the French at Dienbienphu in 1954, but the United States retained its interest in Vietnam. A conference in Geneva provisionally divided Vietnam into the North under Communist-backed President Ho Chi Minh and the South under American-backed President Ngo Dinh Diem, with elections on the issue of reunification scheduled for 1956. Probably the most important impetus for hostilities was Diem's decision to cancel the elections out of fear that he would lose.O SNAP GTG.
The US Civil War (1861-1865) & the Vietnam War (1961-1975).
Eisenhower thru Ford.
North Vietnam started the war against South Vietnam; the US went to the aid of the South.
Lyndon B. Johnson declared U.S entry into the war with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
In 1961 the Vietnam war started. In 1963 president kenndy was killed.
it started in 1883 ;-]
NO- the actual War occurred after he left office. He did send some military advisers to Vietnam and started the idea of US involvement there.
The Vietnam war ended in 1975, Gerald Ford was president.
War against North Vietnam started on 07 August 1964 with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution.
no hahah he was running for president during the vietnam war
Ford was President when South Vietnam fell to the communists (North Vietnam).
The president of the USA for a major time of the Vietnam War was Lyndon Johnson.