The US involvement in the Vietnam War was to rule out and hopefully stop comunism from spreading in a dominoe effect.
Which were the plans of the North Vietnames, to further spread communism to South Vietnam.
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As part of the plan to contain communism during the Cold War, the US sought to keep the capitalist South Vietnam from being taken over by the communist North Vietnam (an ally of China and the USSR). Doing so meant fighting the infiltrating North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Viet Cong guerrillas in the south. The fighting extended into the bordering countries of Laos and Cambodia. It also eventually meant attacking North Vietnam directly on a controversially limited basis.
The fear of being invaded was not a justification for the increase in US involvement in Vietnam. The US withdrew from Vietnam in 1975.
After the US withdrew from Vietnam the Vietcong came into power. South Vietnam fell under communist rule by the Vietcong.
The US is NOT at war with Iraq. The US was at war with North Vietnam.
The United States did get involved in the Vietnam war because of communism in Vietnam.
The US is not at war Iraq. The US was at war with a nation called North Vietnam.