Vietnam war

Name : Clay Schrader

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Vietnam War

I . Introduction

Vietnam War was an undeclared war for the control of South Vietnam 1957-75 . The conflict began as a Communist guerrilla campaign supported by North Vietnam against the government of South Vietnam . By the mid-1960 's , the fighting had expanded to full-scale warfare , with the United States becoming the major ally of South Vietnam . Several other anti-Communist nations , including South Korea , Australia , New Zealand Thailand , and the Philippines , also aided South Vietnam

The United States ' participation was approved

by four Presidents - Eisenhower , Kennedy , Johnson , and Nixon . Each in turn acknowledged the necessity of supporting the South Vietnamese (Nalty , 2001 . The policy of the United States was initially expressed by Eisenhower in 1954 According to his domino theory ' if South Vietnam were toppled by the Communists , neighboring Asian nations - Laos , Kampuchea (then called Cambodia , Thailand , Malaya , and Burma - would also fall , like a row of dominoes , to the Communists . The United States also feared at the time that if it withdrew from South Vietnam while that nation was still weak militarily , Communist nations would believe they could forcibly expand their sphere of influence unchecked (Welsh , 2002

The war ended with the North Vietnamese invasion and conquest of South Vietnam in 1975 . A closely related development of that year was the fall of Laos and Kampuchea to the Communist movements in those countries

Thesis Statement : The purposes of this study are to investigate the events happened during the Vietnam War and scrutinize the...