The War Of The Vietnam War - 1704 Words

In the United States, we learned about how we beat the British during the Revolutionary War, even before we were a country. How we jumped in during WWI to help bring it to an end. Also, how we raided the shores of Omaha to save Europe from Hitler, and drop nukes on Japan. We learned how we beat the Soviet Union so hard during the Cold War that they don’t even exist anymore. One war that America does not seem to talk about is the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a proxy war during the Cold War, but it is always swept aside. The Vietnam War divided the U.S. as the war continued throughout the years. The U.S. shouldn’t have been involved in the Vietnam War because the Domino Theory was not correct. Before the U.S. started combat in Vietnam,†¦show more content†¦As a result of the Geneva Conference, French influence started to go away in Indochina and two new nations were born. After the French had left Vietnam and the rest of Indochina, the U.S. willingly took res ponsibility of South Vietnam. North Vietnam, on the other hand, fully established itself as a communist country under Ho Chi Minh’s leadership. The U.S. first sent American advisors to Vietnam after the Viet Cong, Viet Minh sympathizers, started becoming a threat in South Vietnam (â€Å"Vietnam War History†). At first, President John F. Kennedy sent military advisors to Vietnam to report the conditions there. They advised aid and the American military to help stop the Viet Cong. President Kennedy was a firm believer in the â€Å"Domino Theory,† and as a result, he increased aid. U.S. military in South Vietnam grew up to 9,000 troops by 1962 (â€Å"Vietnam War History†.) The U.S. started sending combat forces in 1965 (Tucker). Thereafter, the number of troops continued to increase, in the article, â€Å"Vietnam War,† the author comments, â€Å"At the end of 1964, about 23,500 Americans had been serving in Vietnam, but by the close of 1968, that number would grow to 525,000 in a steady stream of additional deployments† (Tucker). Thousands of Americans were sent to serve in the war, and after only four years that number went up to hundreds of thousands American soldiers. Initially, the U.S. was staying out of