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VIETNAM - THE PATH TO WAR

Who knows if there's a one real reason we went to war with Vietnam, well I can think of 4. First because of our previous history, second because we openly supported their enemies over them and third because the north Korea sank the USS mattes, and finally we not only funded but train people to kill our allies.

The United States had a very poor history would be Vietnamese it started after world war two. When United States government decided to aid a band of rebels call the viet men who were led by Ho Chi Minh who was a communist. with US's help was the rebellion was successful. here's where it got tricky after the rebellion they tried to rebel against france who had had colonies over there for over 100 years. so they asked for US is help again, But the US didn't answer because the French were democratic. the North Vietnamese  wanted to become communist self after the US said no to funding.

Vietnamese war wanted to go on so they decided to search elsewhere for money. and they ask the Soviet Russians the Soviet Russia of course they said yes. they want a new communist world domination thing that's why they are a huge enemy of the US. when the US knew that if Vietnam fell and became communist that like dominoes. the rest of the Eastern Asia would go to, so they decided to privately fund the French side. And considering that we had been also allied with the Vietnamese we shouldn't have ditched then for the French. So when the French was almost defeated and the Vietnamese were tired of war they started a stand still. At the 17 parallel So everything north of that line became communist and everything south about line became Democratic and Democratic part was ruled by Ngo Dinh Diem and farnce while Communist Bit by Vietnamese almost Soviet Russians but Ho Chi Minh was in charge. The US though this is a good compromise but they didn't like it enough so the US sent over 400 military adviser's up to teach South Vietnamese how to fight off the veit cong. But more importantly so that they can stop the spreading of communism to the rest of the South East Asia.

You can see why North Vietnam would be angry for all us openly supporting and training their enemies but that didn't give the right or option to do a torpedo attack on a US ship. the first we let it go then the next time Johnson ordered the airstrikes. Johnson like the last two presidents Truman and Kennedy wanted to keep communism from spreading. Also he wanted to maintain a peaceful relationship with the Vietnamese. But after doing it the first two times he had had enough so he call for the airstrike on the Gulf of Tonkin. Pres. Johnson meant business when he calls for the continued bombing of north Vietnam. Codenamed rolling thunder this plan was to get north Vietnam to surrender without actually having to risk any American lives. It didn't work because in 1965 the first us Marines landed on the shores of Vietnam and we were official at war.