What led to US military action in the Vietnam
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The path to the Vietnam War began long before the United States actually sent any troops into the foreign country, or became one of the most opposed wars in United States history.... Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia that shared (and still shares) a northern border with China,.... ... ... It was first conquered and subjugated by China in 111 BC, who introduced both politics and Confucianism to the country but left it rankled when it came to being occupied by foreign powers (Bureau of East Asian and Pacific China would continue to rule there for the next 1,000 years, until 939 AD when Vietnam would regain some measure of independence (Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs)....