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To be able to get involved, the conflict had to start somehow, and I a Iso wanted to find out how the beginning of the war started before the United SST a test became involved. There is a lot of content on the Internet, so I went and asks d a history teacher for a history book with a unit on Vietnam. The textbook was very help full in finding facts. The Vietnam War started as a result of U. S strategy of containment during the Cold War, which aimed to prevent the spread Of communism throughout the world. After the Second World War, the Soviet Union with its major role in the war e merged as a superpower with strong influence over Eastern Europe, including Bulgaria a ND East Germany, and parts of Asia, including China and Korea. ” ( The History Place Vietnam War 19611964. ) “The U. S and its Western allies considered Communism in form of the USSR as the greatest rival and postwar threat to their democracies and capital ism. ” (Vietnam War) The turning point in Asia came in 1 949, when China became a communist country after Chinese communist rebels won the civil war and took control of the mainland China.
From 1950, the U. S started to support South Korea in the WA r against the Communist North backed by China and USSR as well as send military aid t o France in its war effort in French Indochina with the goal of containing communism s read. The U. S. Government viewed American involvement in the war as a way to prevent Communist takeover of South Vietnam. This was part of a bigger containment star a test, with the goal to stop communism. China had fallen in 1949 to Communism an d US president, Lyndon B. Johnson, said: “l am not going to be the president who s SouthEast Asia go the way China went. (“Why Did the U. S. Get Involved’) The used the Domino Theory for their reasoning to get involved and found it crucial al to stop communism in Vietnam. “The domino theory was a theory prominent from the e sass to he sass, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence CE of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect (“Domino Theory”) Vietnam was a French colony until 1954 when they signed a treaty at Geneva conference, which temporarily separated the North communists from the So the anticommunists, after the Battle of Dine Been PH.
The French lost control in Vietnam about the time the Korean War ended, who had left the country partitioned into North and South Korea with China and IS USSR actively supporting the North communist government. “Then US President IIS empower graded Vietnam as Korea all over again and feared the whole Southeast Ass including Laos, Cambodia, Thailand would fall to communism in a domino beef etc as similar as what had happened in Eastern Europe (Domino Theory). ” The loss o f that essential regional trading area would encourage Taiwan, Japan, Australia and New Zealand to compromise politically with communism.
Therefore, the U. S intern ended in Vietnam trying to keep the South Vietnamese “domino” from falling. One major event that led to U. S. Involvement in Vietnam was the Gulf of Toni The thing that changed Johnny’s opinion was the Gulf of Tontine incident, who h occurred in August Of 1964. It is widely believed by historians that a ship name De the U. S. S. Maddox was off the coast of North Vietnam, in the Gulf of Tontine, to uncover intelligence. On August 2, three North Vietnamese gunboats opened fire at the e U.
S. Naval destroyer. The U. S. S. Maddox returned fire and the nearby U. S. S. Ticonderoga assisted in attacking North Vietnamese ships. This caused President Lyndon B Johnson to meet with the National Security Council and devise a plan of cacao n against North Vietnam. Knowing that the Vietnam war was very unpopular with the citizens on the Un Ted States helped me understand the dislike and discomfort of being in Vietnam. Many of these men were drafted and unwillingly went to fight a war they did not sup rot.
These men did things that seem unimaginable to someone in their right mind. They did things like accusing others Of stealing pocket knives, then breaking the call_Used peers ions nose. These men were probably angry at the fact that they were in this war, and the y didn’t get to choose to be there or not. War also messes with people’s minds. They were constantly paranoid and on edge. They acted out because of this. Another par tin the kook this relates to is when the main character gets his draft notice.