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The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnem as a part of their wider strategy of containment. Military advisors arrived beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s. With the U.S. troop levels tripling in '61 and tripling again by '62. Operations spanned borders with Laos and Cambodia being heavily bombed. The 1968 Tet Offensive by the North Vietnames turned many Americans agains the was. President Nixon advocated Vietnamization, whithdrawing american troops and trying to give South Vietnam greater responsibility for fighting the war. From 1968 to 1973 efforts were made to end the conflict through diplomacy. in January 1973 an agreement reached and U.S. forces were withdrawn from Vietnam and the United State prisoners of war were released. In April '75 S. Vietnam surrendered to N. Vietnam and Vietnam was reunited.



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