Us Involvement In The Vietnam War

The Vietnam war is a very memorable war in American History for the many battles, lives lost, and the server cost of what would happen if we lost the war. People remember a lot about the Vietnam war but many young Americans like to ask why we got involved in the Vietnam war in the first place. Well, while the Vietnam war started out as a conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, the reason that the U.S got involved with the war was because we wanted to stop the spread of communism from North Vietnam to South Vietnam. One reason to justify that the U.S got involved with the Vietnam war was to stop the spread of communism from North Vietnam to South Vietnam was because Vietnam was at risk of being devolved into and supportive

One reason to justify this claim was in the article,”The Tet Offensive” by Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: War. The article said,”The Vietnamese Communists, however, were still in the fight, and they had no intention of giving up. Instead, faced with a bloody stalemate, General Vo Nguyen Giap devised a massive campaign in the hopes of changing the face of the war.” This shows that the war had already proved that the most recent fights had many casualties on both sides but the Vietnamese Communists still refuses to surrender which clearly shows the aggressiveness of the communist North Vietnamese as well as their violent nature of their crusade. Another reason this claim is justified is that in the same article it said,”Having just lost several men to the NLF, he shot the man in the head before photographers and television cameras, leading to one of the most memorable—and horrifying—images of the Vietnam War. Fairly or not, Americans began to question the worthiness of their Asian allies.” This also proves how the situation in Vietnam needed intervention with The U.S because the fact that this war caused such a memorable and horrifying amount of bodies to surface to the public shows how dangerous and serious the

This can easily be proven with the article,”U.S. Interests in Vietnam, 1965 The Vietnam Era. 1999.” In the article it said,”In early 1965, as conditions in South Vietnam continued to deteriorate and full-scale war with North Vietnam seemed more and more likely, Jon McNaughton (1921-1967), the top deputy to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (b. 1916), sought to assess the U.S. stake in South Vietnam.” This shows how South Vietnam wanted the U.S to help control the spread of communism since we were said to be passionately anti communist. Another reason as to why the claim is correct is because in the same article said,”We must avoid harmful appearances which will affect judgments by, and provide pretexts to, other nations regarding how the U.S. will behave in future cases of particular interest to those nations—regarding U.S. policy, power, resolve and competence to deal with their problems.” This final quote tells us exactly how the U.S wanted to make sure that the future would not hold up any new communist nations so we tried to make sure that we were helping to make that future by stopping the spread of communism in South Vietnam. This as well as the other reasons in the other above paragraphs express how the U.S