. Although Vietnam is a poor Asian country, the people of the United States fought there in order to stop the domino effect of the communists. This theory stated, If South Vietnam falls to the Communist, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, India and Pakistan would also fall like dominos. The Pacific Islands and even Australia could be at risk. Basically the war was fought to hold the line against the spread of world Communism. America paid for the war the French fought against Communist Vietnam as a part of the Truman Doctrine and then by the 1950’s became involved when the war flared up again, the war against communism that is.
Some would say that it was for the same reasons the US is in Iraq in 2007. Others would say there was a genuine rationale based on the "domino theory" of Communist containment.
Plenty of US Servicemen of Irish descent fought in the war, but Ireland did not fight in the Vietnam War.
The US supported Ho Chi Minh fight the Japanese in Vietnam as part of their war with Japan .
Unable to stop the flow of communist men and material from entering South Vietnam and with the support from it's own citizens (fellow countrymen) at home now gone, the US was UNABLE to continue the fight. So it withdrew from it.
France
Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, South Korea and the Philippenes.
about 1957
The USAF & USN fought in NORTH Vietnam (in the skies); the US Army & USMC fought on the ground in SOUTH Vietnam.
Because of US Policy to fight communism.
North Vietnam (capital was Hanoi).
The US fought for the South.
To fight communism.
Plenty of US Servicemen of Irish descent fought in the war, but Ireland did not fight in the Vietnam War.
To prevent the communist take over of the Republic of South Vietnam.
It means that the American people were divided on the merit of this war. Some wanted to continue the fight, while others wanted to bring the troops home.
Approximately 2,594,000 US servicemen served in the Vietnam War.
Because the US soldierswere not trained to fight in the Jungle
The US supported Ho Chi Minh fight the Japanese in Vietnam as part of their war with Japan .