What Is Truman's Involvement In The Vietnam War

Truman may have not been very involved in the vietnam war but his participation in this war dates back to the 1950s when he aided the french with around 160 million dollars. This started and established the U.S. interest in indochina. During President Kennedy’s presidency troops in vietnam increased from 1,000 troops in the 1950’s to 9,000 troops by 1962. Kennedy justified going to war to protect South Vietnam was because of the Domino Theory, that if vietnam becomes a communist country than other southeast asian countries will also become communist. The Domino theory was first brought up by Dwight Eisenhower and is what kennedy and johnson reason for getting involved in the Vietnam War. By the time Lyndon B. Johnson was president troops
By july of 1965 President Johnson sent 100,000 troops to Vietnam and 100,000 more in 1966. The U.S would launch attacks all over Vietnam but, North Vietnam still fighting. The U.S was losing the war even though North Vietnam had more casualties.News media were all reporting on the failure the U.S is having in Vietnam, the U.S people were unsatisfied with the outcome of the war. Protest were happening around the country to stop the war. Years of fighting but there still was no progress from either sides until North Vietnam launched the Tet offensive. It was one of the biggest military battles of the Vietnam War, propelled on January 30, 1968, by strengths of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the powers of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and their partners. North Vietnam launched attacks on major cities, airfields, and bases. When the attacked reached news in the U.S many people started to realize the war isn’t coming to an end soon and distrust what Johnson said about the war coming close to an end. Months later Johnson started to negotiate with North Vietnam about ending the war and bombing in the meantime