The Domino Effect Of The Vietnam War In Iraq

The beginning of my essay: America in the 1960s America in the 1960s, the Nineteen Sixties was a decade that changed America forever. The people reformed the decade not so much by the government. The Sixties contained more spiritualism, people were against the Vietnam war, protests, civil rights, and new beliefs on every aspect of living. The topics that arose during the sixties were not small when they were accomplished or challenged the outcome changed American society forever. Most legislative bills passed in the sixties still remain today.

Second paragraph:The Domino Effect was the scare of the spread of communism in East Asia during the Vietnam War the theory was spread and made it sound like communism would take over the world in time.

The regions in China are an abundant source of natural resources, if the regions made peace or fell to communist rule it would only greater escalate the situation forcing America into the war.

The war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq differ in many ways. In this essay I am going to compare the Vietnam War with the war in Iraq describing how the war in Vietnam varies from the war in Iraq. Three ways the two wars differ are the reason for war, number of deaths, and the cost. The Vietnam War was a war over communism that started in 1950, when Ho Chi Minh, the national leader of Vietnam, introduced a communist government into North Vietnam. In 1954 it was decided to split the country at the 17th parallel, and was ruled under opposing governments, Bao Dai lead the south and Ho Chi Minh the

It was basically said that if one country came under communist influence or control, its neighboring countries would soon follow in a domino effect. U.S. President Eisenhower coined the term during a news conference on April 7, 1954.After World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, most of Central and Eastern European countries came under the influence of Soviet Union communists as part of post war new settlement. On other other hand, many argue that the theory failed to take account of the driving force behind North Vietnamese and Viet Cong who were relatively more of nationalists than communists.

By early 1954, it became clear that the French were failing to re-establish its colonial control over Indochina. In an attempt to gain more support and aid for French during its decisive battle against the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu, in a press conference in April 7, U.S President D. Eisenhower described the situation in Vietnam as a “falling domino” whose loss would lead to rapid and widespread communist victories in neighbouring countries such as Laos, Burma, Thailand as in a domino effect. Even Japan, New Zealand and Australia would be in danger as