USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In response to that threat, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was formed in 1955 to prevent Communist expansion. President Eisenhower sent some 700 military personnel as well military and economic aid to the government of South Vietnam.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the Cold War, the U.S. Government feared that communism would spread and threaten democracy around the world. In Vietnam, the United States committed to battling communism financially at first, by supporting South Vietnam – who fought for Vietnam to be aligned with western allies like the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -The United States had provided funding, armaments, and training to South Vietnam’s government and military since Vietnam’s partition into the communist North and the democratic South in 1954.

Detailed explanation-4: -The object of American military assistance was to counter the threat to the government of the Republic of Vietnam posed by the insurgency of an estimated 30, 000 regular communist Viet Cong and civilian sympathizers among the population.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1961, after two decades of indirect military aid, U.S. President John F. Kennedy sent the first large force of U.S. military personnel to support the ineffectual autocratic regime of South Vietnam against the communist North.