What started the war in Vietnam?

The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war and a continuation of the First Indochina War against forces from France and later on the U.S. ... Beginning in 1950, American military advisors arrived in what was then French Indochina. read more

The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. read more

On March 8, 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines were sent to South Vietnam marking the start of American ground war. American troops then increased rapidly to almost 200,000 in December. Washington showed that they wanted to make a serious move into the Vietnam War. read more