Why was the Vietnam War not necessary?

Answer 1

n 1954, the Vietminh forces of Vietnam defeated the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, and the nation was temporarily divided into two sections, north and south. The people of the south chose Ngo Dinh Diem as their ruler and Ho Chi Minh ruled the north. Diem refused to go along with the planned elections in 1956 to unite the nation so the Vietminh members in the south created the Viet Cong and the war between north and south for control of the country began. The government of South Vietnam requested military advisors from the United States to help train the South Vietnamese army. Ho Chi Minh was a communist and during the Cold War of the 1950s and 60s, the aim of the US government was containment of communist power and not to let it spread. The Eisenhower administration provided South Vietnam with money and advisors to help stop the threat of a North Vietnamese takeover. The United States also was pledged by treaty (SEATO) to aid the member nations in southeast Asia, if they were attacked by a foreign (communist) power. Following the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, President Lyndon B. Johnson also believed in containment and the domino theory. If one nation falls to communism, the next nation will fall, and the next, etc. It became the aim of the Johnson administration to prevent a communist takeover in Southeast Asia. In August, 1964, President Johnson reported to the nation that American ships had been attacked by North Vietnam gunboats in the Gulf of Tonkin, in international waters. The Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving the President the power to use whatever force necessary to protect our interests in the area. At the time, the truth was not reported. > http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2261 In February, 1965, the Viet Cong attacked an American military base near Pleiku. Using the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, President Johnson sent in 3,500 Marines, the first official troops, to South Vietnam. By the end of the year, there were 200,000 US troops in Vietnam.

Answer 2

Theres an old saying, "Ya can't please everybody all the time (but you might be able to please some of the people some of the time)." Some folks folks believe all wars are un-necessary. Some people believe some wars are necessary and some aren't. Some individuals believe in the old adage of "my country right or wrong." Which means they'll believe (or support) any war their country's involved in...whether its right or wrong. So, for this particular question, who says the Vietnam War was un-nessary? For he that says it wasn't, there might be two people that say it was (necessary). Example: Does a college professor state that the Viet War was not necessary...while some other instructors down the hallway teach that it was? Everybody just has to be different, its human nature.

Note: The original old saying was closer to "ya can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool some of the people some of the time."

Answer 3

When the US first became involved in the Vietnam War it was because of the fear that if South Vietnam were to be taken over by the communist north, then the nation of Vietnam would contribute to a process of global conquest by the Soviet empire, which would take over more and more countries, eventually leaving the United States in a vulnerable state of political and economic isolation, in a communist world. However, this fear was entirely wrong, as it turned out, and communist Vietnam has not invaded or taken over any other country, nor has the global spread of communism been a threat to the US, particularly since the Soviet Union itself no longer exists, and the nations of the former Soviet bloc have also given up communism with very few exceptions. Communism was not the threat that the US thought it was. In retrospect, Vietnam was merely undergoing an anti-colonial war of national unification, which was not a threat to the US.

Answer 4

yes it should not happen because vietnam was one country

Answer 5

It was part of the cold war.