Five presidents played a part in the conflict. Eisenhower started sending in military advisers. Then Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and finally Gerald Ford got the US out of it.
Communism versus Cemocracy.
Kennedy - Johnson - Nixon .
The Cold War, then Vietnam.
That it was a civil conflict and that the USSR was not involved.
The Domino Theory was the driving force behind the Kennedy administrations actions in Vietnam.
i believe three Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon
The U.S.A got involved in the Vietnam conflict because General Eisenhower wanted to stop the spread of communism.He also wanted to seize the monopoly on the Rise production coming out of Vietnam.
Many politicans compared Bosnia to Vietnam.
To stop the spread of communism in the region
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter.
Presidents John F. Kennedy (JFK) and Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) were the driving force behind the Vietnam war.
They wanted to 'contain' communism to stop it spreading. They believed in the domino theory, that if Vietnam fell to communism, then so would the whole of Southeast Asia. The presidents who were involved in Vietnam were all concerned with looking tough against communism, and wanted America to appear like a strong nation. The 'quagmire theory' helps explain why successive presidents became increasingly involved; this is the belief that the US got slowly stuck in Vietnam, and it became harder and harder to withdraw commitment.