The US re-deployed from the place.
Communist North Vietnam accomplished it's objective of conquering it's neighbor, South Vietnam.
The French were fighting in Vietnam in 1950 not the US.
South Vietnam
The US wanted N. Vietnam to stop fighting in S. Vietnam.
US Servicemen had been fighting communists in South Vietnam since 1955.
It was fighting for democracy and against communism.
The containment of communism.
It was a noble cause.
Eisenhower's Testerones level
To prevent the spread of communism.
The US has been fighting in Afghanistan longer it was fighting in Vietnam. It is the longest war in US history.
North Vietnamese communists