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The Vietnam War Thesis: America's involvement in the Vietnamese Conflict, was to stop the spreading of communism in Southeast Asia. The United States played a major role in the Vietnam War. Its influence was greatest in the South, led by the Capitalist party of Ngo Dinh Diem. The French had been defeated by the Vietminh, trying to defend South Vietnam and failed to end the Vietnamese conflict. The United States was forced into the war by its anti-communist policies, which were to prevent the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. The Vietnam War took place in a time when Americans did not know what they wanted, but what they did know was that they did not want war (Doyle 95-110). The Vietnam War was not a war at all, at least not from the United States standpoint. It is known as the Vietnamese Conflict. The conflict was between two different political parties in Vietnam, one of them being North Vietnam and the other being South Vietnam. Each party wanted to control all of Viet!nam under their political beliefs. The North wanted the South to unite with them, but the South wanted to break away and start it's own country. But with little compromise the only thing that occurred was negotiation by force. The Geneva Conference in 1954
They thought that if Vietnam became communist, then several other countries might follow it's lead(Hearden 63-65). Before Diem's death there were about 16,000 United States soldiers in Vietnam. The North wanted America to leave immediately, so Page 8 Vietnam could gradually come together. The third and final reason why the United States was helping Vietnam, other than the overall reason of controlli!ng communism in Southeast Asia. Containing the spread of communism in Vietnam was not reason enough. It brought many followers of Communism, but the capitalists and anti- communist farmers stayed in the south. The next day Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City, in memory of Ho Chi Minh who died in 1969(Kahin 282-83). Ngo Dinh Diem was under great influence from the United States, who wanted Diem to lead the government in South Vietnam. When the United States troops !began evacuating from Saigon, the Communists launched a massive attack on the city. After all the trouble the United States went through trying to prevent communism in Vietnam, North and South Vietnam were united under communist rule. In 1973, in comp!liance with the peace proposal, United States military forces withdrew from Vietnam. The South tried to defend themselves by attacking North Vietnamese bases and supply lines(Herring 258). The United States was on very shaky political terms with Japan.
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