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    The United States became involved in Vietnam both militarily and politically during World War 2. At the start of World War 2, the Japanese seeking to exploit the vast amount of resources of south-east Asia, occupied by the French Indo-China. Between, 1941-1945 the only effective resistance to the Japanese in French indo-china was the Vietnamese communist known as the Viet Minh. To help the Viet Minh, their leader Ho-chi-minh fight the Japanese, the United States supplied the Viet Minh with arms and

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    United States' Involvement in the Vietnam War There are many reasons for American intervention in Vietnam whether it is political causes, economic causes or military causes. The Americans want to secure capitalism all over the world and get rid of communism. The French used to run Vietnam in a capitalist manner. After the Second World War France attempted to secure and control Vietnam once more. France refused to recognize the democratic republic of Vietnam that had

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    The Vietnam war, a blemish on the face of American history is often dismissed and brushed under the rug. But veterans Daly Walker and Tim O'Brien exhume the war stories they spent decades burying in order to expose the truth about war. Despite the authors differing styles they both utilize symbolism to relate to the audience the tragedies that occurred during the war, and the battles they continue to fight even today. In “I am the Grass” Daly Walker uses a memoir style of writing to share his involvement

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    The United States involvement in the Vietnam War primarily between the years 1964 and 1968 were brought about by the many hostilities and frustrations predominately based on issues of the Cold War, communism, the Policy of Containment, and the Domino Theory. When the United States first got involved in the Vietnam War in the first half of the 1960s, problems had been ongoing for quite sometime and were continuing to increasingly get worse. Throughout the period of U.S. involvement in the war, there

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    States involvement in Vietnam was the longest war the U.S. has ever took part in and was considered an extended military engagement due to the fact congress never formally declared war with Vietnam (FCNL). The Vietnam War began on November 1, 1955 and lasted for 20 years until April 30, 1975. The war was fought between the communist Northern Vietnamese and the anti-communist Southern Vietnamese after the country was temporarily divided by the Geneva Accords. Americas entering of the Vietnam War proved

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    The Vietnam War is thought of as one of the most significant events in United States history. It was fought over the course of two decades and three United States presidencies. American involvement in the Vietnam War is one of the most highly debated topics discussed today. The United States began their involvement by supporting the French with one billion dollars per year to assist in containing the chaos in Vietnam. Once the French failed, the United States continued to supply money, firearms,

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    – Explain why the USA was involved in the conflict in Vietnam during Eisenhower’s Presidency During Eisenhower’s presidency America became greatly more involved in the conflict that was taking place in Vietnam, this was due to a number of varied reasons. The first reason is the Containment Theory. The beliefs behind this theory was that US War Leaders felt compelled that they had to stop the spread of Communism before it reached South Vietnam. The USSR had taken vast proportions of Europe as it had

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    Reasons for United States' Involvement in Vietnam In this essay I will be writing about why America got involved in the Vietnam War, between the 1950s to the 1960s. This was a steady and slow process with many deaths all because of communism. It was very costly and bloody. This essay will focus on political reasons, military reasons and economy reasons. Firstly the political reasons. The involvement in Vietnam started off with the cold war, when Russia and America

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    considerably they has been involvements. For example US involvement in Vietnam war through out the1950s till 1960s. In that incidence united states supported France which was more a democratic side and rejected vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi who was known as a communist supported by Russia, and aided with the cost of the war. In 1964 the congress authorised Johnson the president to take necessary actions to prevent aggression against united states in Vietnam and bombing of Vietnam took place in response

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    served in the Vietnam War. Due to only hearing stories from other family members about his experience and never from my grandfather himself, my curiosity was my motivation to learn in depth why the United States became involved in the war which heavily impacted so many American families including mine. In researching this topic, I learned that America’s prominent reason for intervening was triggered by the goal to stop the spread of communism. I also learned our country’s involvement lead to a divided

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