The United States Becomes Involved in Vietnam

The United States was heavily involved in the Vietnam War before the ’60s, specifically  since President Harry Truman announced a policy that declared they would back any country that would fight communism. By 1954, America revealed that it would support Catholic leader and politician Ngo Dinh Diem in Vietnam.

However, it was only in 1965 when the United States troops landed in Vietnam in what was dubbed Operation Rolling Thunder. On March 2 of that year, the bombing campaign began after its Pleiku base was attacked. In the following year, only Hanoi and Haiphong were spared from the explosions.