History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1961 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Advisers in Vietnam
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The idea
Continuing Eisenhower's policy, Kennedy supplied money and military advisers to prop up South Vietnam's government under Ngo Dinh Diem.
In practice
Sixteen thousand American troops in Vietnam by November nineteen sixty-three, training special forces and spraying defoliants over the countryside.
Where people slip
The anchor traces the commitment to a small advisory group Truman sent in nineteen fifty.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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