Reasons of the Vietnam War
- Vietnamese wanted to become an independent nation, so they had to fight the French which were allies of the U.S
- The election were promised by the Geneva Convention in July, 1954 but were never held, and Ho Chi Minh (a political leader) would have won.
- For the Vietnamese to unify there country, they would have to fight the corrupt dictator of South Vietnam
- U.S increased its military after the incident of the Gulf of Tonkin, which gave President Johnson the approval of Congress to fight an undeclared war.\
- After founding the People's Republic of China, and the Korean war in 1950, the United States changed its foreign policy drastically towards Asia.
- U.S military and politicians invented the "Domino Theory" which was falsely stated that if one nation fell to Communism, the others would follow like dominoes.
- The American Government underestimated the will of the Vietnamese people to fight, they had fought the French, and the Chinese. The American people couldn't comprehend with the Vietnamese.
- After Vietnam was declined assistance from the U.S (Western nations) Vietnam accepted assistance from China and the Soviet Union, turning the conflict into a Cold War stand off between democracy and the communism.
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