Vietnam_And_US

Vietnam And US The United States involved itself in a hopeless fight against communism due to its prior commitment to a policy of containment. There were certain military and political objectives that were involved. There were also weaknesses within U.S. strategy, which contributed to the failure of American involvement. The American people were unsatisfied with the government’s choices and questioned the purpose. The United States committed itself to something that was doomed to fail from the beginning, and it did. American participation was proven to be a waste of American time and lives. The overarching political aim behind the United States' involvement in Vietnam was to contain the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. This American policy was called containment. It said that the U.S. should try to keep communism contained and prevent spread of the belief. The involvement basically was initiated during the Cold War, and it was also due to American fear of communism. To accomplish this aim, the United States supported an anti-communist regime known as the Republic of Vietnam in its fight against a communist take-over. South Vietnam faced a dual threat: a communist-led revolutionary insurgency within its own borders and the american, vietnam, communism, united, states, war, troops, over, involvement, communist, powers, south, people, fight, against, after, vietnamese, spread, republic, political, policy, north, military, lives, forces, worse, within, waste, treaty, tired, take, strategies, southeast, sent, regime