POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
COLD WAR IN ASIA
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Johnson
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Nixon
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Kennedy
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Truman
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Detailed explanation-1: -May 1961-President Kennedy sends 400 American Green Beret ‘Special Advisors’ to South Vietnam to train South Vietnamese soldiers in methods of ‘counter-insurgency’ in the fight against Viet Cong guerrillas.
Detailed explanation-2: -The South Vietnamese armed forces suffered 4, 004 killed in action, nearly double the total killed in the previous year. During 1961, North Vietnam infiltrated 6, 300 persons, mostly southern communists who had migrated to North Vietnam in 1954-1955 and 317 tons of arms and equipment into South Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-3: -In September 1950, President Harry Truman sent a Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) to Vietnam to assist the French in the First Indochina war.
Detailed explanation-4: -Kennedy was concerned at the advances being made by the communist Viet Cong, but did not want to become involved in a land war in Vietnam. He hoped that the military aid would be sufficient to strengthen the Saigon government and its armed forces against the Viet Cong.