Explain why the United States became increasingly involved in the war in Vietnam.

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Explain why the United States became increasingly involved in the war in Vietnam.

America first got involved in the war after the french were defeated in the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. They

felt as if they had to get involved becuase they were threated by the spread of comunism in Asia and they felt that

if this carried on the whole world would become communist.

At this moment in time, the cold war was still in process and USA felt as if they couldn't really be in two places at one

time. They were in a cold war with Russia over communism which links to the theory that the Americans felt which was

going to happen. This therum was called ' The Domino Theory' they felt as though if one country fell to communsim then

it would fall onto another country and another country and carry on going like dominoes', so the americans felt that they

should stand up to their position of "policeman of the world". Which in theory this famous quote by Lyndon B Johnson sums it up "If you let a bully come into your front garden one day, the next he'll be up on your porch, and the day after he'll be raping your wife in your own bed."
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From the late nineteenth century Vietnam was a french empire and was known to the french as " French-indo china".

After the second world war, and after being defeated in the Dien Bien Phu War, they decided to withdraw in 1954 as they

found it hard to fight against Vietnams Guerrela Tactics which then gave Vietnam "A power Vaccum". So the Americans saw this as a threat, so in retaliation the Americans started to provid South vietnam with economic goods and military aid, this was becuase south Vietnam was anti communist and was ruled by ...

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