Entering vietnam

Vietnam is a beautiful, highly varied country with a very long history of struggle for independence. For thousands of years, the vietnamese had fought to preserve their distinct language and culture against invaders by first repelling the Chinese, the Japanese, the French and then finally the US. Few arguments about the Vietnam war take into account all aspects of Vietnam’s two thousand year history of hard-fought existence. And that is what most people believe is the essence of the Vietnam tragedy. The Vietnam war began soon after the Geneva Conference provisionally divided, in 1954, Vietnam at the 17 North Lat. into the Demorcratic Republic of Vietnam, North Vietnam, and into the Republic of Vietnam, South Vietnam.

In part, the war was a legacy of France's colonial rule, which ended in 1954 with the French army's catastrophic defeat at Dien Bien Phu and the acceptance of the Geneva Conference agreements. The United States and many anti-communists did not support the accords. The US thought that the political protocols of the accords gave too much power to the Vietnamese Communists. To prevent the south from being over taken by the communists the US created the Sout

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Although there were many complaints and protests against the intervening of US troops into Vietnam, it had to be done so that capitalism/democracy, not communism, would be the domaniant, government system. His action was denounced by Ho Chi Minh, since the Communists had expected to benefit from them. The government of the Republic of Vietnam was constantly under attack by geurilla insurgents called Vietminh and Vietcong.

The South Vietnamese government as well as its citizens needed the help of the United States

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of America. If Vietnam fell to communism then it wouldn’t effect the US in a big way that would call to attention the need for Vietnam.

Most people as well as governors, senators and other political speakers see the American involvement in the war as an avoidable tragedy. Elections scheduled for 1956 in South Vietnam for the reunification of Vietnam were canceled by President Ngo Dinh Diem. American past successes with containment and the Truman Doctrine made its military commitment to the defense of South Vietnam a logical step given American foreign policy as it had evolved in the post WWII world. Also in the doctrine of “containment” it states that there can be such thing as “nonaligned nations” nor could there be a neutral nation. had developed the policy of containment to halt the spread of communism and adopted the Truman Doctrine to help free peoples resist subjugation by others, it became logical to commit American troops to the defense of South Vietnam, as was done massively beginning in 1965. Why did the United States government and people send advisors, millions of dollars, and eventually troops into this Vietnamese crisis that was clearly a Vietnamese problem? These kind of questions were thought of over and over in the minds of citizens and government officials in the United States of America. heast Asia Treaty Organization, or SEATO. These insurgents would sneek past enemy lines and reek havoc on unsuspecting political targets.

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