U.S. Goals in Vietnam War?

Question

What were the goals of the U.S. being involved in the Vietnam War?

Answer 1

Ask one of the viet nam vets that served there and came back to our country and coundn't even get respect yet alone a job.My husband says some of the guys actually left there brains there! But guess what now there saying that war was a mistake.So was there a goal, like I said ask a viet nam vet.

Answer 2

The Domino Theory was the prevelent then. Everyone believed that when Vietnam fell Cambodia and Laos would be next, then Thailand, Maylaya and Indonesia, Burma and India. And so on. President Kennedy issued a Challenge to The Soviets that we would fight them anywhere.

That said the South Vietnamese Government was controlled by North Vietnamese Catholics who had come south with the Communist Victory in the North. They were extremely unpopular with the religious minorities that had run thier own show and the Communists in the South.

The North Vietnamese hlped the VC we helped the RVN.

Answer 3

Kennedy wanted to stop Communism. The Domino Effect. The domino theory was a 20th Century foreign policy theory, promoted by the government of the United States, that speculated if one land in a region came under the influence of Communists, then more would follow in a domino effect. The domino effect suggests that some change, small in itself, will cause a similar change nearby, which then will cause another similar change, and so on in linear sequence, by analogy to a falling row of dominoes standing on end. The Domino Theory was prosecuted by successive United States administrations during the Cold War, to justify American intervention around the world.

Answer 4

First: stop the spread of communism (with side comments from conservatives that anyone who questioned their "containment/domino theory" was soft on communism. The theory turned out to be wrong--as subsequent history proves. There was no "disaster" for the US following the pullout--only the fall of the puppet regime we'd been propping up.
2)"Peace with honor" This nice sounding phrase meant creating a situation in which the puppet regime in Saigon could defend itself and maintain order against the general population who hated them even more than they hated the Americans. So we spent billions of dollars and thousands of American lives defending a government that was dictatorship and never paid more than lip service to human rights.

"Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it"--Clarence Darrow (among others).

Answer 5

Create another satellite base to spy on N. Korea, China and Russia.

Answer 6

to stop communism from spreading, because of a ridiculous domino theory.

Answer 7

democracy