... " to Vietnam. The southern based republic of Vietnam was in desperate need of help against the Viet Cong, which was the Communist funded North Vietnamese. This was actually the beginning of two wars. The first was a struggle between Vietnamese nationalists and the French colonial regime which was aided by the United States at the time. During this second war the United States stepped in to take the place of France against the northern based Communists and the southern insurgents. The United States ... bomb the North Vietnam area. During the course of the war Johnson relied heavily on the...

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