Enemy (North Vietnam) won the war. Edit: We didn't gain anything. We lost alot of lives. Nixon brought our troops home and let North Vietnam and South Vietnam work it out without our interference. Eventually, North Vietnam took over the South Vietnam government. Then there was no North and South Vietnam. It was just Vietnam. They had changed into an entirely communist government which is why America interfered in the first place. We were trying to prevent or stop communism from spreading. Communism: A type of government in which the government controls all the economic activities.
The Chinese Revolution first brought communism into the international order.
Lenin brought state capitalism to Russia, not Communism.
Julius Nyerere
Vietnam was a hot battle of the cold war.
Many people were (and still are)associated with communism. Karl Marx invented the concept, and is seen as the father of communism. Vladimir Lenin was head of the party of revolutionaries that brought the system to Russian government. Trotsky was responsible for his army, the Red Guards. Stalin took over the government (against Lenin's wishes) and his successor was Kruschev.
to try to contain Communism
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Ding Xiaoping or Mao Zedong. I am not sure.
Because it brought on Communism in Russia. Also China was influenced by Russia to be communist as well.
Vietnam was a "hot" battle of the cold war.
Depending on your political position, you could argue that the creation of communism brought its demise. Or, to be kinder to communism, the people promoting communism were using "communism" as an excuse to grab power. So it was just a dictatorship running its course.