What is the major reason for the Vietnam war?

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Answer 1

Nice...ignorance and conspiricy theorists.

French indochina was a colony of France. Then, when Japan decided to be a colonial power, they invaded much of southeast asia, including taking over the french colonies.

After japan was defeated, the French wanted their colony back, they didn't want to be a colony again. We were caught between our ally and our concept of democracy. But as soon as ho Chim Minh started getting support from USSR, it became a democracy vs. comunisim fight. To us, it was one of Kruschev's "wars of local liberation."

The partion of vietnam was a negotiated compromise to appease the north comunists, without sacrificing the south to comunisim.

As usual, we negotiated the agreement, and though that would be the end of the matter...

As is often the case, idealology is preaced by a person who's only way to keep power is to create conflict, and HCM wanted to be the leader of a reunifed Vienam, his predecessors kept the goal, and they just outlasted their opponents, and us.

All the rest is details.

So to answer your question, the major reason was the peoples of the former French Inochina colony did not want to return to being a French colony after WWII. Everything else follows from that fact.

Answer 2

Before the Viet war America had made a promise that if any country was being taken over by armed force, we would come to the aid of that country.
North Vietnam marched into South Vietnam with the stated intention of forcing them into a union. South Vietnam asked for our assistance to prevent a take-over. We entered the war to fulfill our promise.
The war was unwinable because the people were not in support of the army. We had demonstrations against the war everywhere. The government made so many rules and regulations that the army was unable to do its job.

Answer 3

The war against Vietnamese independence was started with a speech by John F. Kennedy, senator, calling for US support for the French effort to retain their grip on the southern part of Vietnam. As I recall this was in early 1954 but you had bteer check.

I do not call it "South Vietnam" because there never was such a thing as "South Vietnam." The pretense that there was a state called "South Vietnam" was instigated by the US State Department so they could have a seat at the table when regional security was taken up by SEATO. That way they could ignore the reality that Vietnam is and was a single country, deserving of having its voice heard.

So why did Senator John F. Kennedy start that process of US military support for the Saigon-based oposition to the forces of the north? No mystery there. It started with a lunchtime meeting between Joseph Kennedy and his longtime friend Cardinal Francis Spellman. Both were intensely loyal to the Roman Catholic Church. The church had a foothold in Saigon, but free elections would have surely turned the country over to the national hero, Ho Chi Minh, and Buddhists would dominate the government, reducing Catholic power.

Free elections, promised to the Vietnamese, were cancelled when it became obvious that Ho would easily win. So the myth of a country called "South Vietnam" attacked by a country called "North Vietnam" was propagated, and the primary purpose behind it all was to preserve the interests of the Roman Catholic Church.

Francis Spellman, cardinal of New York, was a very powerful figure, and successfully got Joseph Kennedy to motivate his son Jack Kennedy to make that fateful speech. What kind of person was Joseph Kennedy? Well, when world War 2 was looming, he was Ambassador to the Court of St. James, London. The British got FDR to recall him, because Joseph Kennedy was so sympathetic to the Nazis.

So the major reason for the Vietnam War was to protect Roman Catholic infuence in the southern part of Vietnam.

Answer 4

To free South Vietnam from the communist North and make Vietnam a democracy. Also to fight off the communist Chinese troops there.

Answer 5

As usual, but you wont get full marks because we are all in denial. It is as usual, caused by blundering US interference in other peoples business.

Answer 6

simply the cold war !!!