The United States became involved in Vietnam during the World War II era, and continued to be involved into the early 1970s. Write an essay exploring the main events/developments over that time span pertaining to American involvement there during the Presidencies of Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Some of the highlights that you may want to address. Could include: containment and the Korean War under Truman, Vietnam being divided into a communist north and democratic south through the Geneva agreement in 1954 and the Eisenhower support of the South Vietnamese President Diem, the deployment of more military advisers under Kennedy and the assassination of Diem, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, search and destroy missions, operation Rolling Thunder, and the Tet Offensive under Johnson, and how Nixon’s Vietnamization policy eventually ended American involvement in Vietnam. You could discuss some of the long- term impacts of the American experience in Vietnam as well.
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