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... The US first became involved in Vietnam because American policymakers believed that if the entire country fell under a Communist government, Communism would spread throughout Southeast Asia. ... If Vietnam were to fall, it will be just a matter of time before other Southeast Asian countries fell to communism.
Vietnam had already experienced problems under French rule in the First Indochina War. ... At the 1954 Geneva Accords certain agreements forced the Vietminh to emigrate toward north Vietnam and the South would be composed mostly by anti-Communist Catholics, refugees and about a tenth of Vietminh “stay behinds”. This “provisional demarcation line” was supposed to be temporary, until elections that would decide if a united Vietnam would fall to communism. Knowing that the elections would unify Vietnam into a communist nation, the United States violated the Geneva Accords and began on aiding the South. Ngo Dinh Diem, an anti-French and anti-Communist, was fled to the South, where he assumed power and founded the country “South Vietnam”.
By the late 1950’s, South Vietnam had committed self-suicide. ... He payed high rents to greedy landowners, and that caused peasants to join the newly establish National Liberation Front (North Vietnam). ... By JFK’s death two years later 16,000 American soldiers established in South Vietnam. ... Instead of playing it safe and backing down from Vietnam, LBJ furthered drained the US by following Kennedy’s aggression plan of stopping communism.
Approximate Word count = 1068
Approximate Pages = 4.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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