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Posted on April 28, 2021. At the beginning of August 1964, President Lyndon Johnson sent American troops to Vietnam into combat against Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam, and the North Vietnamese people. Johnson sent a total of 180,000 troops, which might be comparable to 1 million American soldiers considering the strength of the North Vietnamese forces at the time. Further, most of the nations around Vietnam were allies of the U.S., and some of them hosted American bases. Despite this, after 11 years of struggle, the North Vietnamese, supported by the allies of Russia, China and people around the world, were able to defeat the American forces and send them packing. The window through which the American ambassador and his entourage climbed onto the embassy roof to escape by helicopter after the fall of Saigon, the seat of America’s power and that of its allies in South Vietnam, was plastered on every international news station at the time.

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