Domino Vietnam War

The Vietnam war started as a result of U.S. strategy of containment( to stop the expansion of an enemy and its allies help to prevent the spread of communism abroad) during the cold war, which aimed to prevent the spread of communism throughout the world. America’s anti-communist foreign policy caused an escalation of the Vietnam war in the 1960ś. That´s when America first got involved. The U.S. also intervened in Vietnam, trying to keep the south Vietnamese dominos from falling. The domino theory was that if one country got over with by communist then all of the other countries would to. The dominos were Taiwan, Japan, Australia, New England, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos( Domino Theory).

The Vietnam war was the longest war fought in U.S.

French General attempts, and fails, to wipe out the Vietnam in one stroke. The United States sent $15 million dollars in military aid to the French for the war in Indochina. Included in the aid package is a military mission and military advisors. Responding to the defeat of the French by the Vietnamese in Dien Bien Phu, President Eisenhower outlines the Domino Theory "You have a row of dominoes set up. You knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly."(The

Not until 1995 did Vietnam release its official estimate of war dead: as many as 2 million civilians on both sides and some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and VietCong fighters. The U.S. military has estimated that between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died in the war.

On August 2, 1964, the United States was drawn further into the conflict when the USS Maddox, a destroyer cruising in the Gulf of Tonkin, was attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats 30 miles off the coast of North Vietnam. Two days later the Maddox and another destroyer were attacked.

April 1972 the United States bombed civilian dwellings and military targets in the cities of Hanoi and Haiphong. In May of that year, in response to a drive by the North Vietnamese forces into the South, President Richard Nixon ordered the mining of harbors off North Vietnam. Both the bombing and the mining provoked sustained anti war protests within the United States.

On Jan. 27, 1973, a cease-fire was signed in Paris by the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the NLF. United States ground troops left Vietnam by the end of March 1973. Fighting continued, however, as the North and the South accused each other of truce violations. A second cease-fire was signed in June, but the hostilities continued through