Roughly 59,000 Americans died fighting in Vietnam. The number of Vietnamese civilians and soldiers killed may have run as high as three million. The fighting spilled over into Cambodia and Laos ...

This fear prompted Kennedy to send more U.S. troops to Vietnam, further establishing America’s role in the war despite protests back at home against it. Infighting between the Viet Cong (Vietnamese ...

He teaches several lectures on the Vietnam War, along with classes on military ... certain number of men are trained, they train more, and so on, eventually creating an army. After Kennedy was ...

The number of US military advisers in Vietnam grows from 900 in 1960 to 11,000 in 1962. 1964-1969 – By 1964, the Viet Cong, the Communist guerrilla force, has 35,000 troops in South Vietnam.

President Kennedy inspires idealistic ... With South Vietnam in chaos, hardliners in Hanoi seize the initiative and send combat troops to the south, accelerating the insurgency.

Vietnam is a country in south-east Asia. There were a number of long-term and short ... In 1963, President John F Kennedy sent 16,000 military ‘advisers’ to help the South Vietnamese army.