In
short, the Vietnam war started as a result of U.S strategy of containment
during the Cold War, which aimed to prevent the spread of communism throughout
the world.
After
the Second World War, World divided into two major political power houses,
communist and democracy. China became a communist country after rebels, led by
Mao Zedong, from 1950 America started to support South Korea in the war against
North Korean communist rebels, North Korean communist backed by China And
Soviet Union.
Vietnam
was French colony until 1954 after peace treaty at Geneva conference, Vietnam
was temporarily separated into two parts after the battle of Dien Bien Phu.
Then American feared
that the whole Southeast Asia including Laos,
Cambodia, Thailand would fall to communism in a domino effect as similar as
what had happened in Eastern Europe (Domino theory). The U.S intervened in
Vietnam trying to keep the South Vietnamese “domino” from falling.
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