Why did the us government decide to intervene in the civil war in vietnam?
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Because the US first got involved when it supported the Vietnamese against Japan in WWII. When it won it then supported France against the Vietnamese because it needed French support in Europe at the time. Then when the Vietnamese Civil War really got going, the US saw it as part of a global Soviet Communist plan to dominate Southeast Asia.
Yes, the US pulled off an amazing set of short term solutions that set up a massive long term failure, the most important one being failing to support Vietnamese nationalism against France trying to reassert its empire. Vietnam was far more nationalist than Communist in the early period of the struggle against France, and had even looked to the US for support.
France left the political alliance of NATO anyway, and the US ended up stuck fighting a war it had been told was unwinnable by it’s analysts by the late ‘50s. If the US had backed a more nationalist Vietnam, it would have happily looked to us to keep China away, and the US could have avoided a decades long bloodbath.
MARK BRAINLIEST..
Yes, the US pulled off an amazing set of short term solutions that set up a massive long term failure, the most important one being failing to support Vietnamese nationalism against France trying to reassert its empire. Vietnam was far more nationalist than Communist in the early period of the struggle against France, and had even looked to the US for support.
France left the political alliance of NATO anyway, and the US ended up stuck fighting a war it had been told was unwinnable by it’s analysts by the late ‘50s. If the US had backed a more nationalist Vietnam, it would have happily looked to us to keep China away, and the US could have avoided a decades long bloodbath.
MARK BRAINLIEST..
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