The US could have let Vietnam settle it's own issues. If the big Communist Powers had not supported them.
Vietnam war made Vietnamese people having to do highest their effort to catch developed country.Maybe 100 years to be America now.
Cambodia.
it was policy of America to became one of the strongest country in the world at that time.and the conditions were suitable for America as it was the country having least damage at that time.so America involved in the 1st world war. it was policy of America to became one of the strongest country in the world at that time.and the conditions were suitable for America as it was the country having least damage at that time.so America involved in the 1st world war.
Having a defeatist attitude.
Robert S. McNamara proposed that having fewer troops fighting in Vietnam, and instead relying on our technologically advanced weapons to defeat the enemy.
The countries involved in the space race were the USSR and the United States of America. The US claims victory in the space race, having been the first to land on the moon in 1969.
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.
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What do you mean by fighting it "properly"? 1. Politicians run America; without them who would? 2. "Properly?" Do you mean fight Vietnam WITHOUT restrictions...atomic bombs? Invading NORTH Vietnam? Because that's certainly what it means! 3. The primary mission of the Vietnam War was stopping communist expansion (aggession) and NOT HAVING A NUCLEAR WAR while doing it.
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It was bloody and violent, and lacked purpose. Officially, the point of the Vietnam War was to stop Communism from spreading in a domino-like effect, and eventually engulfing the world in a monopolitical socialist system. However, Vietnam was a poorly planned for and poorly executed war, in which America eventually had to withdraw, having wasted much money, resources, and lives of soldiers.
President Johnson did not reveal the number of casualties to the American people. The idea that America was having a more difficult time in Vietnam than previously expected was something the government hoped to keep to themselves.