Eisenhower provided France with bombers and non-combat personnel, he then provided military and economic aid to southern Vietnam after France withdrew and sent a total of 900 U.S. military advisors to South Vietnam. Eisenhower vowed not to send any US troops there only advise/aid South Vietnam. Harry S. Truman deserves no responsibility for the Vietnam War. Truman’s involvement was very minuscule, and a part of his general foreign policy of aiding European countries post world war II. Truman gave military aid to the French, who were at war with Vietnam, under his "Marshall Plan", suppling military pilots to fly "supply missions" for the French and minor combat roles. These two men did very little in terms of the 58,236 American deaths and $584 billion dollars lost and shouldn’t be accountable for the disaster of the
Eisenhower provided France with bombers and non-combat personnel, he then provided military and economic aid to southern Vietnam after France withdrew and sent a total of 900 U.S. military advisors to South Vietnam. Eisenhower vowed not to send any US troops there only advise/aid South Vietnam. Harry S. Truman deserves no responsibility for the Vietnam War. Truman’s involvement was very minuscule, and a part of his general foreign policy of aiding European countries post world war II. Truman gave military aid to the French, who were at war with Vietnam, under his "Marshall Plan", suppling military pilots to fly "supply missions" for the French and minor combat roles. These two men did very little in terms of the 58,236 American deaths and $584 billion dollars lost and shouldn’t be accountable for the disaster of the