In 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized $15 million to go to the French in aid to “contain” communism, thus beginning America’s involvement in a war that we had nothing to do with. The United States once had a foreign policy of non-involvement during the early 1900’s in World War I (WWI) and the beginning of World War II (WWII). This policy led to the involvement of the United States in WWII. Monetary aid as it shows in history provokes strong feelings against the party that funds wars. In 1950, the US’s foreign policy was “containment.” This was the policy of keeping communism within certain areas of the world and not letting it spread. There were other policies of being the police of the world and making sure that the rights of people were not infracted upon, but the main goal was to keep communism out of other countries. There were many factors that led the United States to be involved with the Vietnam conflict. Other than political factors, there was the fact that there were many different presidents during the thirty year conflict, and they had different goals for the United States, there was the pride that each of the presidents felt about America, and there was the history of Asian culture that both Americans and Eur

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As the United States was opposed to having the election, Bao Dai as he was backed by the United States refused to participate. The unwillingness of President Kennedy to end the conflict in Vietnam with peace is demonstrated by him saying he wants ". "I have asked the commanding general, General Westmoreland, what more he needs to meet this mounting aggression. Martin Luther King declares that the war is undermining President Johnson's Great Society social reform programs, ". President Truman ignored him and created a certain amount of enmity between the United States and Vietnam. With all the opposition to the war, there were many clerical errors that were made. ”[1] This quote shows that the United States could have diverted from entering a war that did not have much to do with the current state of the United States. I have seen them in a thousand streets, of a hundred towns, in every state in this union—working and laughing and building, and filled with hope and life. Of course Americans are appalled at the fact that the “ignorant…gooks think they could kill us invincible Americans. Professors and teachers begin to protest, publishing an anti-war advertisement with 650 names in the New York Times. “The youthful Kennedy administration is inexperienced in matters regarding Southeast Asia. " They were right in saying that because although the United States was trying to contain communism, there should not have been American soldiers involved in the war. France, in her ignorance wanted back the colonies they had before World War II and the United States at the Potsdam conference in Germany gave it back to France.

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