THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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He wanted to get communist influence out of North Vietnam and create a democratic government in North Vietnam
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The Soviets were threatening American interest in Vietnam
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He was pressured by Congress to delcare war on Vietnam after the French left
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He did not want communism to spread into South Vietnam and rest of Southeast Asia
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Detailed explanation-1: -Johnson believed that if he permitted South Vietnam to fall through a conventional North Vietnamese invasion, the whole containment edifice so carefully constructed since World War II to stop the spread of communism (and the influence of the Soviet Union) would crumble.
Detailed explanation-2: -The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government.
Detailed explanation-3: -when the U.S. could have withdrawn from Vietnam.” Instead, Johnson escalated because he did not have a better alternative. By February 1965 the situation had morphed into perilous anarchy. Between the Diem coup and Johnson’s escalation Saigon fell to seven different governmental factions.