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Daniel Ellsberg contends that U.S. participation in Vietnam had begun in 1945 when it gave support to a French effort to reconquer its colony in Vietnam, a nation that had just declared independence in August 1945. | Daniel Ellsberg contends that U.S. participation in Vietnam had begun in 1945 when it gave support to a French effort to reconquer its colony in Vietnam, a nation that had just declared independence in August 1945. | ||
The wars was later ended by [[Richard Nixon]] while ending the draft. | |||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||