lyndon b. johnson was the president of the united states when the vietnam war began.
lyndon b. johnson was the president of the united states when the vietnam war began.
who was the president of the united states when the vietnam war began?
lyndon b. johnson
after world war ii, vietnamese revolutionaries under communist leader ho chi minh sought to gain independence from france. the 1954 geneva agreements had partitioned french indochina into the kingdom of laos, the kingdom of cambodia, south vietnam, and north vietnam, the latter of which was controlled by the communist viet minh. the vietnam war began in 1955 as north vietnamese forces, with the support of the soviet union, china, and other communist governments, sought to reunify vietnam by taking control of south vietnam. under president eisenhower, who sought to prevent the spread of communism in southeast asia, the united states replaced france as the key patron of south vietnam. eisenhower and kennedy both dispatched u.s. military advisers to south vietnam, and by the time johnson took office, there were approximately 16,700 american military personnel in south vietnam. despite some misgivings, johnson ultimately came to support escalation of the u.s. role in vietnam. he feared that the fall of vietnam would hurt democratic credibility on national security issues, and he also wanted to carry on what he saw as kennedy's policies. finally, like the vast majority of u.s. political leaders in the mid-1960s, he was determined to prevent the spread of communism.
foreign policy of the lyndon b. johnson administration
in 1960s, when the cold war was occurring between the united states and the soviet union with an arms race this caused political unrest in southeast asia. the united states spread the free world government system into vietnam, laos, and cambodia. at the same time, the soviet union had spread the communist system into vietnam, laos, and cambodia as well. the people within those three countries also divided and ran by two government systems. civil war broke out. vietnam divided into two countries, north vietnam and south vietnam; north vietnam was ran by a communist regime led by ho chi minh. south vietnam was led by the elected vietnamese president and supported by the united states' government. the vietnam war began. at the same time, laos and cambodia also had two government systems, one supported by united states and the other supported by soviet union socialist republic. the civil war began as vietnam war. the cold war in south east asia has interrupted the lives of iu mien society and changed them forever. the united states government sent central intelligent agency (cia) and military advisors into laos in support of the royal lao government to fight against communists pathet lao. they recruited iu mien people as their soldiers to fight against the lao communists regime. the war had caused many iu mien casualties along with other tribes. iu mien soldiers were armed with american made weapons and dressed in american military uniforms and also funded by american taxpayer dollars. over a 15-year period, american bombs dropped by american planes over laos more than world war i and world war ii combined. lao citizens became refugees all over laos. the united states agency for international development (usaid) provided aid to the refugees.
iu mien people