Question

How/why did the U.S. end up involved in a war on the other side of the world? Remember the years here (1955-1975)

Answer 1

Answer:

The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War,[ and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America(Vietnamese: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China,and other communist allies; South Vietnam was supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communistallies.The war, considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some,lasted 19 years, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973, and included the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.

Answer 2

Answer:  

The Vietnam War  

• The USA got engaged with Vietnam since it dreaded the spread of socialism. The USA couldn't crush the Vietcong and were met with developing resistance to the war back home.  

Explanation  

Explanations behind US inclusion in Vietnam  

• Vietnam is a nation in south-east Asia. There were various long haul and transient motivations to clarify why the USA got associated with Vietnam in the late 1950s.  

Reason one - Vietnamese freedom  

• Before World War Two Vietnam had been a piece of the French Empire.  
• During World War Two it had been attacked by Japan. Ho Chi Minh was the pioneer of the Vietminh, an obstruction armed force which battled for Vietnamese autonomy.  
• After World War Two Ho Chi Minh caught Hanoi in 1945 and announced Vietnam autonomous. The French attempted to take control once more, yet this was disagreeable with the individuals. They were crushed by the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.  
• Harmony was examined at Geneva in 1954 and the Treaty of Geneva concurred that the French would leave Vietnam and the nation would be part along the seventeenth Parallel until races could be held.  
• The decisions were rarely held and the nation stayed partitioned:  
• North Vietnam was a socialist republic drove by Ho Chi Minh.  
• South Vietnam was an entrepreneur republic drove by Ngo Dinh Diem.  

Reason two - Civil war  

• The Vietminh needed to join the nation under socialist pioneer Ho Chi Minh. A considerable lot of the South Vietnamese individuals bolstered Ho Chi Minh as they were discontent with Ngo Dinh Diem.  

• War broke out between the North and South. From 1958 onwards, the South went under expanding assaults from socialists in South Vietnam itself. They were known as the National Liberation Front (NLF).  

Reason three - The Domino Theory  

• This was the conviction that on the off chance that one nation tumbled to socialism, all things considered, the neighboring one would likewise fall – like a line of dominoes falling over. This had occurred in Eastern Europe after 1945. China had gotten socialist in 1949 and socialists were in charge of North Vietnam.  

• The USA was anxious about the possibility that that socialism would spread to South Vietnam and afterward the remainder of Asia. It chose to send cash, supplies and military consultants to support the South Vietnamese Government.