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How america entered indo china .discuss

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The US decided that it needed to hold the line against the Communists, though, and continued to send increasing amounts of war material and increasing numbers of military advisors to the aid of capitalist South Vietnam.

Gradually, the US got pulled into an all-out shooting war of its own with the North Vietnamese. First, military advisors were given permission to fire back if fired upon in 1959. By 1965, American combat units were being deployed. In April of 1969, an all-time high of over 543,000 US troops were in Vietnam. A total of more than 58,000 US troops died in Vietnam, and over 150,000 were wounded.

US involvement in the war continued until 1975, shortly before the North Vietnamese captured the southern capital at Saigon.

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