The primary reason why the United States became involved in war in Vietnam was to?

The U.S. was attempting to keep Communism from spilling over from North Vietnam to South Vietnam (one of the other posters referenced the "Domino Theory," which suggested that if one country became Communist, another could become Communist, and so on and so forth, like toppling dominoes). We first got involved in the 50s by providing relatively small amounts of economic and military aid to the French, who were involved in fighting in Vietnam before we were. When the French failed and a Communist government in North Vietnam arose, Eisenhower sent "advisors" to South Vietnam to train their military to resist the North's.

In the 60s, JFK sent Green Berets/special operations forces clandestinely into Vietnam to train counterinsurgency forces there. By the time JFK was assassinated, we had over 10,000 advisors ("advisors" generally equals "special forces") in Vietnam, and over 100 Americans had already been killed. In 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred in waters adjacent to North Vietnam, where an American warship and a North Vietnamese vessel exchanged gunfire.

There was controversy as to who shot first, but it eventually led to a push for Congress to approve the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which allowed for further U.S. military escalation into Vietnam. There was no formal declaration of war, and military forces just kept getting incrementally larger and larger until their peak in the late 60s. Seriously, who's coming here just to vote Thumbs Down on everyone, especially the ones who took the time to answer paragraphs' worth of detail on the issue?

You and your meaningless lives can get bent.

Who knows the real truth; I have read that America promoted France to "fight " for it's colonial rule over Vietnam, (which it lost sometime around WWII), right after WWII. France didn't want to be involved in any more conflict and "lost" the war. America not wanting to be a part of the losing side started throwing money at the problem.

And on it went from there. I have also read that a few "powerful" individuals in a boardroom sat sown dividing up Vietnam as they did Europe after WWI. Source for that (on recollection only) is Oscar Himplewitz of Yahoo answers.

I have also read that America had significant tin mining interests in South Vietnam and this was an influencing factor. So the real reasons for military action in Vietnam may be very disguised, and largely unknown to the general public. The main reason for political conflict at home was the large amount of American troops being killed for little or no gain and the enormous mounting toll of dead innocent Vietnamese.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.