Question

vietnam war causes and consequences

Answer 1

The Vietnam War was started in the late 1940s because communism was starting to grow in Vietnam, and the US wanted to keep it contained. ... CAUSE: United States initiates action to prevent the spread of communism.EFFECT: Loss of life in mass numbers on both sides. CAUSE: The US believed in the "domino effect".

Answer 2

The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. Opposition to the war in the United States bitterly divided Americans, even after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.