Puja Lodhia 11JHF
HISTORY COURSEWORK.
American Involvement in Vietnam
This coursework is about Vietnam and the involvement of the United States of America.
The reason for the involvement of the United States with South Vietnam were, Firstly there was the Domino affect and that they did not want communism to spread and people were worried particularly the Americans that communism would overflow and spread amongst most parts of Asia.
Source B states that if the North Vietnam took control or revolted then the situated would be rather similar to that situation that had occurred in Korea
Some of the reasons that the U.S forces could not defeat the Vietcong because of the Guerrilla warfare and the tactics they had were much to difficult to handle. Another reason why the United States found it hard to defeat the Vietcong were that the Americans did not know their way around the jungles of Vietnam, however the Americans had tactics of there own for example source D states “The aim of guerrilla warfare is to rubble at the enemy in such a way that he can neither eat nor sleep.
