War of the Five Presidents
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Truman
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Eisenhower
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Kennedy
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Johnson
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Nixon
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FINANCIAL AID
Support the French $23 million 35 military advisers Military vehicles Aid $336 million, 1950 |
FINANCIAL AID
Support the French $1 billion in aid French defeat 1954 $2 billion aid to Diem (1954-60) 1000 military advisers |
COUNTER INSURGENCY
Growing Presence Green Berets (Covert ops) Strategic Hamlets 16,000 military advisors (Active role) Doubled financial aid Operation Ranch Hand APC’s / helicopters Sanction coup against Diem |
ESCALATION
23,000 advisers (1964) Operation Rolling Thunder Gulf of Tonkin Resolution ‘Boots on the Ground’ (1965) 500,000 troops by 1967 |
VIETMANISATION
End the War Escalated bombing to Laos + Cambodia (Secretly) Paris Peace Accords, 1973 |
