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The long term causes of the Vietnam War were traced back to the Cold War. This was based on the fear that America had of communism spreading across the Asian continent.
The long term causes of the Vietnam war was communism taking over southeast Asia. The United States feared this spread of communism.

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The fight against communism was the general reason (cause) for the war.

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There was only was cause; Communist expansion. Which they succeeded in doing on 30 April 1975, when the South fell to communist forces.

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