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What does escalation mean during the Vietnam war

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Escalation during wartime is usually refering to the rise in combat and causualities

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During the Vietnam war, escalation mainly refers to when the US went boots on the ground full force in 1965. Johnson having just been reelected turned is main focus to the vietnam conflict. He would drop over 500,000 tons of explosives on North Vietnam, quickly raising the death toll many of which were civilians. Combat boots hit later that year, over 35,000 troops were deployed.

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