Vietnam-+path+to+war


 * =**VIETNAM - THE PATH TO WAR **=

You all know that the United States was involved in a major military conflict during the Cold War ... but why? What was America's "path to war"? Using the resources below and Creating America, your task this evening is to write a description in YOUR OWN WORDS of the causes of American involvement in Southeast Asia. Pretend you are writing it as a summary for on online encyclopedia or textbook. Your description should ...

The United States helped Ho Chi Minh in the fight against the Japanese because Japan was their enemy from WW2. Once China fell to communism the US began to worry about Vietnam falling into communism. The __French__ tried to take contoll of Vietnam and many vietnamese people didn't like that, so they formed various groups. __Ho Chi Minh__ was the leader of the the leader of the __communist__ party in Vietnam. The US supported French because they didn't want Vietnam to fall into communism. President Turman and Eisenhower used the domino theory on explaing why the US needs support the anti-communists in Vietnam. The French and Viet Minh reached decieded to dividing the north and southaling the 17th parallel. __Ngo Dinh Diem__ was anti- communism and was then chosen to be the prime minister of the south. Diem had little support in the south. Kennedy sent __military advisers__ to help in south Vietnam. Kennedy sent military coup to overthrown Diem which they did but they also killed. Kennedy was then assasinated and Lyndon Johnson became president. North Vietnamese attacked US ships in the __Gulf of Tonkin__. The president reacted by bombing North Vietnam. Finally Lyndon Johnson sent 75,000 combat troops to Vietnam to help south Vietnam.  

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