We fought over the way the government in Vietnam was being run. They had communism which means if someone needed something in Vietnam like food or money, it was given to them. But we wanted them to have democracy, which means the exact opposite, if we wanted something, we would have to earn it. If we wanted $10, we would have to work to earn the money. So we fought with Vietnam just because we wanted them to have democracy.
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Plenty of US Servicemen of Irish descent fought in the war, but Ireland did not fight in the Vietnam War.
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The US supported Ho Chi Minh fight the Japanese in Vietnam as part of their war with Japan .
Vietnam was a French colony up until World War 2, when Japan invaded it. The Vietnamese were able to fight off the Japanese. After the war, France attempted to retake Vietnam, which created North and South Vietnam, leading to the Vietnam War.
President Johnson's visit to Australia during the Vietnam War was met by Australian anti-war protests.