In 1954, it won control of North Vietnam when the French agreed to a partition in the Geneva Accords. The North was led by a Communist and nationalist regime that had fought against the Japanese in World War II and against French colonial rule in the late 1940s.
The Vietnam War was a conflict between North and South Vietnam, but it had global ramifications. Johnson never did figure out the answer to that question. So what the hell do I do?" he lamented to Lady Bird. "I can't get out, I can't finish it with what I have got.
Johnson's approval ratings had dropped from 70 percent in mid-1965 to below 40 percent by 1967, and with it, his mastery of Congress.
By 1968, the United States had 548,000 troops in Vietnam and had already lost 30,000 Americans there. The major initiative in the Lyndon Johnson presidency was the Vietnam War.
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