Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Miscellaneous Vietnam4 Vietnam4 Vietnam is 9000 miles away from the United States. Yet America felt that it was in it’s best interest to protect the peace in south Asia and stop the spread of communism. Therefore, America thought that the establishment of the “Iron Curtain” of Europe must be stopped from happening in Asia. The communist take over of China, the Korean War and the communist victory over the French in Vietnam led many Americans to fear that the communists were taking over the world and America must dispatch force to stop their expansion. At that time, most American believed in the “Domino Theory”, suggesting that if one Asian country fell to the Communist the others would quickly follow. The U.S. government believed that by helping the South Vietnamese government to resist the invasion of the North Vietnamese would prevent the spread of communism throughout the world. After W.W.II, the US government considered that the communists posed a great threat to world peace, for example, communist easily established a so called “Iron Curtain” in east Europe and overthrew the Chang regime in China as well as drove out the French from Vietnam. Meanwhile, American presidents had done enough to avoid charge as “who lost Vietnam to the communists.” In 1954, instead of keeping the promise of Geneva to hold free elections in order to elect a leader to rule the united Vietnam, America assisted Nyo Dinb Diem gain the presidency and established an American-style government in southern Vietnam. By the mid-1950s, the Vietcong posed a great threat against South Vietnam, and the North began to pump weapons, advisors, and other resource into the southern cadres, which were reorganized as the National Liberation Front in 1958. Therefore, in the late 1950’s the U.S. government dispatched hundreds of special “advisers” (later in war the numbers was up to thousands) to assist the South Vietnamese military to fight the Vietcong. Vietnam had become entangled in the Cold War maneuvers of the United States and Communist countries. Today many Americans still question the neccessity of U.S. military force in the Vietnam conflict. It was also clear to President Johnson that American military involvement must not reach levels that would provoke the Chinese and Soviet into direct intervention. Officailly the U.S. only provided helicopters, gunships, and napalm for fighting and Clark Clifford the secretary of defense said: ” we have no military plan to Bibliography: Word Count: 400
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