Following a victory over a battle with the French, North Vietnam in 1954, set ways into communism and in turn proceeded to try and reign over the now divided Southern Vietnam. The Soviet Union and china were the biggest supporters for the Northern Vietnam, while the United States was the backing for the Southern. It was at this point President Kennedy sent in Green Berets, to help maintain the democracy in Southern Vietnam. Three United States presidents had continued to back the fight against communism in the world, and to stop it from spreading. Thus, proving we would do whatever it
(b) How far was President Kennedy determined to use military forces in South Vietnam in order to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia? There is two sides to each argument in this answer one side will show how determined Kennedy was to using military force and the other side would be to show how he tried to use other options. Firstly I am going to describe how I think that Kennedy was determined or willing to use military force. Firstly he started out by carrying on Eisenhower’s plans for guerrilla warfare by training the South Vietnamese army and giving them supplies and equipment to try and fight the war like that instead of using American troops even though he criticised Eisenhower’s soft defence against communism but still carried on with some of his plans. 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.
How effective were the US tactics of ‘search and destroy’ and ‘defoliation’ in the Vietnam War As North Vietnam came to communism the USofA soar this as a threat agent’s capitalism. And if Vietnam “fell” in to communism then the hole of Asia could become communist this is called the “domino effect”. In this time President Kennedy had ‘advisers’. The US were fully involved in Vietnam in 1964 the 4th of august when the NN North torpedoed the USS Maddox in the gulf of Tonkin and the Paris treaty in 1973 followed by the fall of Saigon 1975. Due to the Vietcong’s strategies the US decided to bomb the north into surrendering.
The key reason was fear of communism, especially since the ‘Domino Theory,’ supported the threat of communism reaching Australia. Australia also had a responsibility to help America in the Vietnam War due to the SEATO and ANZUS treaties. Finally, by following the government’s defence policy of ‘Forward Defence,’ Australia needed to be involved in the Vietnam War to contain communism away from Australia’s
He announced his plan of “Vietnamization” which was a strategy which replaced American troops with Vietnamese troops. Vietnamization was supposed created so that the responsibility of the war would fall into the hand of South Vietnam. It allowed American troops to return home slowly. In the same year, President Nixon had planned to secretly bomb Cambodia with an effort to eliminate the Communist camps that were present over there. In 1970, troops started to invade Cambodia which infuriated people because Nixon had promised peace.
The main reason for the USA’s military intervention in the Korean war was that of containment. The American aims was to work with its allies to contain the spread of soviet and communist Chinese power using political, economic and if necessary military pressures. Any failure of containment was potentially disastrous. According to the USA the loss of SK might well lead to a chain reaction leading to the loss of much of the rest of Asia, including Japan. This was called the domino theory.
The Battle and Problems at Hue By Shawn A. Murray Shawn Murray HST 390 The Battle and Problems at Hue The Battle at Hue was one of the most important turning points of the Vietnam War not only for the Vietcong and Northern Vietnamese but also for the American troops and the American public. If not for the Vietcong and PAVN troops shifting their attention from guerrilla style warfare in the rural areas to a more conventional style in the city of Hue the Vietnam War might have ended with a different outcome. The Tet Offensive, which was an all-out attack of major southern Vietnam cities by the PAVN to show their military prowess to the Americans and ARVN forces. It was intended to send “…a clear message to southerners about the communists’
He called on Truman to approve huge reinforcements, a wholesale naval blockade of all of China and an immeadiate bombing of the Chinese mainland. It was felt that by using a naval blockade and two long-range air groups, that the military capacity would be unaffected in Europe, an obvious concern of the Truman administration. [11] Ultimately, the use of air and naval forces were a concern of the administration and the United Nations because of the belief by these entities that by expanding the power exerted over China, it would inevitiably lead to a nuclear war. Something the Truman
This became one of the paramount cornerstones of U.S. policy at the time which was called the domino theory. The domino theory stated that if the south fell and became communist soon after all the surrounding southeastern Asian countries would quickly fall to communism too. These fears eventually came to the forefront of U.S. international affairs during the Kennedy administration. Upon fears that the soviet space and missile program had surpassed that of the United states and dire warnings from incumbent president Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy in his famous inaugural address stated, In his inaugural address, Kennedy made the ambitious pledge to "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty." So to calm fears of communist takeover President Kennedy sent in 800 american “advisors” to help train the south Vietnamese.
The Vietnam War started when the North Vietnamese wanted to spread communism throughout the South. Because of the United State’s policy of containment and the fear of the domino theory, the U.S. first sent advisors to help the South Vietnamese. The U.S. soon started to send troops to fight and