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Root Causes Of The Vietnam War

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One of the root causes of the Vietnam War was the struggles between the French colonial forces and native Vietnamese citizens supported by Chinese communists. The United States forces entered the conflict in support of the French in order to fight communism. The Americans fought the war alone, when the French left. The Americans had been working with the anti-communist side in Vietnam since 1950. The Vietnamese Diem administration was corrupt and proved ineffective in fighting the powerful and communist-supported Ho Chi Minh. In August 1964,the Vietnamese forces fired on an American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin, and America retaliated with airstrikes.The United States was fully committed in Vietnam, by 1965, with over 60,000 American troops

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