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Vietnam was just one of the physical "blows" of the cold war. Other than those "physical contacts", the cold war was simply a military stand-off (not doing anything, just seeing who could "better the other" on weapon construction(s)

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Communism was seen as the greatest threat to the free world. The Vietnam War was "theoretically" an act of military might to discontinue the "domino theory" (spread of communism).

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To keep Vietnam from going nuclear. Vietnam was part of the cold war.

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