Exploring the Reasons for United States' Involvement in Vietnam

Though out history, American has had its hand in conflict with other countries. Some of those conflicts have turned out into wars. Looking back at America’s “track record” with war, America has a worthy past of having its citizen’s support. Obviously the two World Wars we not controversial. The United States in the Korean War was criticized, fairly, for its strategy, but the need to defend South Korea was never questioned. In only the Vietnam War was the United States’ very participation criticized. This is such a gigantic change with prior wars that it bears study as to why it happened, and better yet, should have it happened. This paper will discuss the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War, by asking the simple question, Should have the Untied States’ gotten involved into the first place. This paper will prove that in fact, America should have not gotten involved with the Vietnam War.

Under Truman’s administration, Vietnam was separated by the 16th parallel north. After Hainan Island was captured, he approved the spending of $10 million for military aid to the French in order to prevent the spread of communism in Indochina. After the Korean War, the U.S. started becoming more involved in combating communism. Once President Dwight D. Eisenhower took over, he used the “Domino Theory.” The Domino Theory was an idea that suggests that if one country fell under communist control, neighboring countries would eventually follow. The theory was used to justify U.S. involvement in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. After Kennedy became President, U.S. involvement in Vietnam became much more notable. Before his assassination, Kennedy had increased the amount of military numbers in

President Eisenhower began to send aid to South Vietnam and helped them create the Army Republic of Vietnam(ARVN). Eisenhower believed that ARVN would help stop the Communist North Vietnamese from taking over. Even though South Vietnam was getting aid from the United States, they were still losing against North Vietnam and needed serious help from the United States.

the war takes a dramatic turn in August 1964 in the gulf of Tonkin as

American involvement in Vietnam was largely in response to Cold War polices and Strategies. Kennedy took a much more laid back approach to Vietnam than Eisenhower did. He only wanted to support the South and not give them direct military aid by getting involved. Kennedy believed that the nations themselves should bear the burden of fighting the war and America would merely give them supplies and political support. However, the administration’s attempt to help the South largely failed because neither the South Vietnamese nor the Americans knew how to deal with guerrilla warfare. Another issue was that Diem’s support quickly declining to the point where it was just about his own family. He never trusted any popular government official in

In his speech about Vietnam on November 1969, President Richard Nixon mentions that the United States got involved in the Vietnam War because of communism. He says that North Vietnam was being supported by Communist China and the Soviet Union to take over South Vietnam. He says that President Eisenhower, had to send help to South Vietnam to “prevent a Communist takeover”. From that day on, the United States was swept into the Vietnam War.

They had proper strategic analysis with adequate information were available at the end of the First Indo-China War in 1954. However, there was a combination of factors that caused the leaders to dismiss the analysis including lack of understanding of Vietnamese nationalism. Unfortunately, the Vietcong had a far greater appreciation for these factors than the U.S leaders, that resulting in the communists forged a far more effective strategy for the achievement of their goals. In order to do so, they enforced some extremely burdensome and potentially lethal constraints. In 1956, the North Vietnamese communist party called for the organization of a mass-based party infrastructure in South Vietnam whose purpose was to provide three things: intelligence, manpower and logistical support for mobile military forces through the Lao Dong Party (working class). The Lao Dong party’s primary concern was to secure North Vietnam from invasion. Then they appealed through the extensive global propaganda system of communist, socialist and other leftist organizations’ influence public opinion against US. With extensive support from the U.S.S.R and China, the Vietcong was able to build a modern military capable of regional power projection to defeat the U.S and overthrow the Vietnam

The United States became increasingly involved with the War in Vietnam mostly thanks to their enmity with Russia due to the fact they were Communist, and how the USSR spread claiming countries that could’ve been turned democratic and become trading partners of the US. While Russia, Britain and the USA were all allies in WW1, they disagreed on many things, especially on how Germany should be punished and how should Europe be handled.

In December 1960, the National Liberation Front, normally called the Viet Cong, developed to encounter the South Vietnamese rule. A civil war exploded for regulator of South Vietnam, although Hanoi required to bond the country further down its own communist guidance. The Additional Indochina War began in serious with the US pledge to stop the communists as of overrunning South Vietnam. In spring 1961, the government of John F. Kennedy lengthened US attention for the South Vietnamese government, counting an upsurge in US military consultants, the replication of military support, and agreement of the usage of napalm, herbicides, and defoliants. start superscript, close superscript. The intensifying US participation in Southeast Asia remained

The defeat of the French is a key point that led to increased US involvement in the problems in Vietnam. After the defeat of the French the country split in to two, the North being communist and the south being the opposite. The north which the leader of the time was Ho Chi Minh wanted to take over the south. America did not want this to occur because it would cause the domino theory to take action which directly links to countries that are in American interest.

North Vietnam was a communistic country when South Vietnam was a capitalize country, that shows where the problem was. The reason why we helped or aided South Vietnam was because the U.S. government viewed its involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam. So we sent about 500 thousand military personnel to Vietnam.This was the best idea to stop communism from spreading at that specific time period. We also helped South Vietnam because Eisenhower wrote to South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and promised direct assistance to his government.The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam. That was the immediate cause of the Vietnam War and why we aided South Vietnam in the Vietnam

The nature and consequences of US involvement in Vietnam until 1968 are categorically characterised by Economic, Social, political and military linkages with the nation on both flanks of the demilitarised zone on the 17th parallel. The consequences associated, in regards to the United States escalation of involvement in economic, social, political and military relations in both South and North Vietnam, were substantial in the sense that the United States would ultimately shape a volatile political and military forefront for an anti-communist crusade in the already established cold war environment.

Exploring the Reasons for United States' Withdrawal from Vietnam America withdrew its last troops from Vietnam in 1973 but troop numbers were being reduced since 1969 after the election of President Nixon on a pledge of "Peace with honour". Eight years earlier in 1965 president Johnson had committed the nation to war with general support from the population who had come to fear communism. America was committed to Truman's policy of "Containment" of communism thereby hoping to prevent the 'domino effect' whereby America feared that if Vietnam became a communist country, other neighbouring countries would follow suit. They entered the war as the world's richest and most technologically advanced

The Vietnam War was one of the most unpopular wars in American history from the beginning. There are many reasons why the Vietnam War was one of the most unpopular wars in America, but a few will be focused on. The government’s deceptive motive of the war and the hypocrisy regarding the government’s motive was exposed, the horror stories from Vietnam War veterans themselves painted a gruesome image, and the view that the Vietnam War was unwinnable are reasons why this has come to be known as one of the most unpopular wars.

In the Vietnam war, The US began getting involved because they didn’t want the communists to take over the region. The Army of the Republic of Vietnam wasn’t really interested because they wouldn’t really gain anything personally, so this was not a last resort option for the US because they did not have to get involved in the first place. The US felt the need to get involved because they wanted things done “right.” Therefore the US had a great deal of difficulty in holding the army together in South Vietnam and saw only one