After the failure of that he introduced things such as the strategic hamlets (Agrovilles) which were villages that were surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by troops, to isolate National Liberation Front (NFL) guerrillas from political recruits and other responses. In November 1961 Kennedy agreed to provide aircraft, intelligence equipment and additional economic aid which show that he was keen to introduce military forces to Vietnam. But due to the takeover of the NFL this meant that Kennedy had to up his enforcement in Vietnam so he left Johnson with a US military force of 16,000 troops and a commitment to the growing Vietnamese war. Source B also suggests that Kennedy was willing to use military force and it does this by saying “Kennedy would have agreed that withdrawal would case the fall of the dominos” this is suggestion that if Kennedy withdrew from Vietnam then this would be the realisation of the domino theory and everyone would see if Vietnam was the trigger that set of the domino theory. This source shows that Kennedy was willing to us military force and would not withdraw from
This was mainly all because of the Cold War ideology; neither side wanted to back down. The North Koreans, under the power of Kim Il Sung wanted to reunify Korea and make it all Communist. The South however, under the anti-Communist ruling of Syngman Rhee (who detested Kim Il Sung) was obviously against this. An example of this ‘see-saw’ fighting was near the beginning of the war – troops in the South were unprepared and were pushed back into a small corner of South Korea when North Korea attacked. This situation was very quickly reversed when the United Nations landed in North Korea and cut off their supply lines, which caused the North Korean armies to flee back north.
Frederick William shared this view and was unwilling to potentially cause a war with such a powerful state. This caused the Frankfurt Parliament to fail because Prussia did not grasp the opportunity to unite and neither did the King, therefore Germany remained divided. Although he desired power, William IV was not willing to put himself and Prussia under control of the Frankfurt Parliament as he distrusted ‘the gentlemen of Frankfurt’. This meant that the Parliament had no real leader, and so lost support because people distrusted the parliament as an influential figure stated he would not be associated with them. This aided in causing the failure of the Parliament because with no real leader, no one could influence the masses or help to make decisions.
He did all this in order to persuade people to show charity and compassion to all religions. Diem, and his government’s reaction to this was to arrest thousands of Buddhist monks. Many monks disappeared and Diem’s government was blamed. For these, and many other reasons, “Kennedy became convinced that Diem could never unite South Vietnam against Communism and he agreed that the CIA should initiate a program to overthrow him. A CIA operative, Lucien Conein, provided some Vietnamese generals with $40,000 to overthrow Diem with the added guarantee that the United States would not protect the South Vietnamese leader.
Vietnam War was the longest war in which the United States took part. It began in 1957 and ended in 1975. Vietnam, a small country in Southeast Asia, was divided into Communist-ruled North Vietnam and non-Communist South Vietnam. North Vietnam and Communist-trained South Vietnamese rebels fought to take over South Vietnam. The United States and the South Vietnamese army tried to stop them but failed.
Their main goal was to stop communism from spreading all around the world, and in Vietnam, but they destroyed their economy in the process of accomplishing their goal. America lost more than $173 billion dollars due to the cost of the war, and heavily armored machinery. If used right, these amounts of money could have benefited the American economy, and could have played a major role in world economy today. Each day, the price of the US dollar decreased dramatically. This was also a big reason why the American citizens were against the Vietnam War.
This would last only a few days before the Americans and South Vietnamese countered successfully and decimated the Vietcong force. This in and of itself would be huge. The reason that it would be huge is that a major problem for American troops was knowing who to trust and who to shoot as Vietcong was in South Vietnam. With them eliminated the war would be normalized to battle lines instead of the skewed map of controlled areas before the counter attack. However, all of this is nulled by the fact that America was set back at all when it appeared that America was invincible.
After years of fighting, the North finally set a full invasion of the South. The South begged for America's help, but the U.S. only sent economic aid and refused to send troops. 58,000 Americans were killed and Vietnamese deaths topped 2
Also, hundreds and thousands of soldiers were injured. John F. Kennedy believed in a democracy; on the contrary, Ho Chi Minh wanted a communist government. Both wanted what they thought was the best for their country and their beliefs. It was Kennedy’s decision from the beginning to send troops to Vietnam to help the South Vietnamese out. Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist leader for the communist North Vietnam.
Abby Vest Mrs. Anderssohn History period 3 18 May 2015 JFK and the Cold War John F. Kennedy did a lot of things before and during his presidency that contributed to events during the Cold War. He helped the U.S in many ways, doing what was right in his mind for the country. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a significant element to the Cold War because of the way he approached difficulties that the U.S faced during this time. Similar to presidents before him, JFK wanted to continue to contain communism. He wanted to stop the spread of communism, even in foreign countries that the U.S communicated with.