At the heart of the conflict was the desire of north Vietnam, which had defeated the French colonial administration of Vietnam in 1954. The Vietnam war started November 1, 1955, and ended for the US April 30, 1975. In March 1985, Johnson decided, to send US combat forces into battle in Vietnam. 82.000 combat troops were arrived in Vietnam by June, and the military leader called for more than 175.000 more by the end of 1965 to help the south Vietnamese army.
In 1961, the US military forces decided to use a powerful herbicide, called Agent Orange. It was used in the Vietnam war to eliminate forest cover and crops for North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops. The Us military sprayed more than 20 million gallons of the dangerous herbicide over Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos from 1961, till it got banned in 1971. A lot of Vietnamese is still affected by Agent orange today.
The United States Got involved in the Vietnam war to prevent South Vietnam to fall into communism. China had already become communist in 1949 and communists were in control of North Vietnam, Well the United States was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and the rest of Asia.
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