US citizen's who wanted to stop communism were FOR fighting against communism.
It started because the citizens wanted to fight over communism.
South Vietnam wanted to remain an autonomous democracy, and North Vietnam wanted to unify the whole country under communism.
The U.S. supported South Vietnam they did this because they wanted to stop the spread of communism. They were also afraid that if Vietnam fell to communism then other countries would soon follow.
That is what the cold war was all about; containing communism (without having a nuclear war). We didn't want communism to spread. The communist's wanted to expand. Communist North Vietnam wanted to conquer South Vietnam...that's expansion; we couldn't allow that! So we fought a war about it.
Vietnam was part of the COLD WAR. It was fought to stop the spread of communism.
The Vietnam War started as part of the Cold War; communism vs. democracy. The United States feared the spread of Communism from the Soviet Union. And corrupt politicians in Vietnam used this fear to justify their desire to keep the wealth of Vietnam for themselves.
The US became involved in the Vietnam War in an attempt to stop the spread of Communism. The US worried that if South Vietnam fell, it would create a domino effect. The war lasted from 1955 to 1975.
The US entered the Vietnam war after ww2 because the US wanted to control Communism or stop it completely and half of Vietnam was a commie country and the US did not want the Communism to spread so we entered to stop the commie side of Vietnam and to liberate the Democratic side
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The United States supported the resistance to communism.
Anything after Vietnam (1975) doesn't concern communism. Vietnam was the last straw!