hello can any one tell me they main reason for americas involvement in vietnam?

Question

also couls you tell me they main reasons of why America was in the cold war and what is the cold war thanx

Answer 1

Vietnam was a French colony. In the 1950s, there was a revolution where the Northern half of the country split off and became a communist nation. At first the French asked for help from the US. Eisenhower sent in "advisors" but when the French pulled out, the US was faced with a choice -- escalate the war or let the South become communist. Eisenhower worried about "The Domino Effect" -- which means that he felt that if one country in the region fell, then the rest would also fall & become communist.

The Cold War refers to the period from 1947-1989 when the US and the USSR threatened each other by continuing to build bigger and better weapons.

Answer 2

You asked a question and answered your question without knowing it. To go backwards, the Cold War comes before Vietnam.

The Cold War started at the end of World War II. The Soviet Union did not set free the nations that they took from Germany's Third Reich. Instead, they added them to the United Soviet Socialist Republic.

The problem is that during World War II, both the US and the USSR developed nuclear bombs. Rather than create a war that would have destroyed all life on the Earth, the two essentially gave each other the cold shoulder. The Cold War was about the two world powers not speaking to each other.

Vietnam was in the middle of a civil war and the USSR started giving support to the north. The US gave support to the south and through Vietnam the two fought their own war. Neither the US nor the USSR really cared about Vietnam, but it was a way to fight a war that would otherwise have been nuclear and highly destructive.

In the end, both sides were stalemated, because Vietnam is a very difficult place to fight. The Vietcong do not fight in the same way as the US or USSR troops. The environment is also difficult to fight in.

Neither side could use nuclear weapons because someone has to fire them. If the US fired, it would be seen as a US war. If the Soviets fired as a Soviet war.

The Vietnam War was a failure for all sides and killed a lot of innocent people. The country's civil war became a pawn for the two countries in the Cold War.

Take care,
Troy

Answer 3

Because russia was arming north vietnam, it was a war between 2 superpowers, just on neither of their territories, so that they did not have to feel the real effect of war.

Answer 4

apart from the fact that Russia were providing weaponary for North korea, America feared that if north korea could take over South K. then this would result in a "domino effect" meaning communism would spread...well that links with the cold war.

Answer 5

It spurred from the theory of the "Domino Effect."

Sure, one can look back now and say "stupidity" (hindsight is 20/20), but at the time, communism appeared to be a cancer that could spread. The U.S. chose to fight it on foregin soil before it came to our own shores.

Answer 6

because Russia was arming the north vietnamese so the US backed the south vietnamese

Answer 7

I don't think God talked to Paul about anything.

Answer 8

STUPIDITY