Did vietnam learn anything from WWII? Why did the US. go into vietnam?

Answer 1

This is a question that gets asked often, and with the current situation in Iraq, the comparisons are also inevitable.
The administration of J.F. Kennedy made some serious errors about their "enemy" China, and the Vietnamese people. China and North Vietnam were NOT seeking regional hegemony. Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist first, and a communist second. The artificial split of Vietnam into "North" and South" was the political basis of the problem.
That political problem soon became a military problem. Kennedy's decision of late in 1961 to send in 16,000 U.S. military advisers was meant as a "training mission" - to allow the "Republic of Vietnam" the chance to defend itself - the "mission" was to be completed by 1965. Kennedy was assassinated in Nov., 1963, and L.B. Johnson's administration retained the same mission, but increased the size and scope of the American military in Vietnam.
Yes, the American military leaders used tactics similar to the large-scale operations that were conducted in World War II.

Answer 2

Congress has authorized every conflict the United States has had troops involved in since the end of WW II. There has not been an official "declaration of war" by any nation that I am aware of since the end of World War II on earth. I could be wrong, but cannot think of one. Your argument is a bogus attempt made by liberal America-bashers to try and depict the United States as some kind of rouge nation going around picking on all the other little kids on the playground. NO TRUE. The leaders of the United States realized in the aftermath of WW II that the long time policy of isolationism had NEVER worked, and was just to dangerous to pursue in a world of intercontinental bombers and atomic bombs. Our proactive foreign policy since the end of WW II has been designed to ensure that regional conflicts stay regional, and do not trigger an world wide event on the scale of WW I or WW II. So far it has worked. Nothing on the scale of either World War in the first half of the twentieth-century happened in the second half (in fact--as noted--there has not been a declared war in all that time). Neo-isolationists think that if the United States would just go back to sleep, stick its head back up its rear-end, and ignore all the provocations the lion will lay down with the lamb and the world will be at peace. GET REAL. As soon as we turn out backs someone is going to stab us in it. We are going to end up with a Third World War that will make the last two seem like a walk in the park. Count on it, but don't say I didn't warn you....

Answer 3

Vietnam learned that they might win freedom. The U.S. does not believe in freedom, and felt that Vietnam as a French colony would better serve the interests of the U.S.

Answer 4

Why?

The United States became involved in the war for a number of reasons, and these evolved and shifted over time.
U.S. policymakers, and most Americans, regarded communism as the antithesis of all they held dear. Communists scorned democracy, violated human rights, pursued military aggression, and created closed state economies that barely traded with capitalist countries. Americans compared communism to a contagious disease. If it took hold in one nation, U.S. policymakers expected contiguous nations to fall to communism, too, as if nations were dominoes lined up on end.

Answer 5

The reason for the US going into Vietnam was to stop the domino effect of the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia. So much of the area had fallen into the rule of communists that Vietnam became the place where it was to stop!! Didn't work!!

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Answer 6

The US gone there for perish. Almost they were perished there.