What was the purpose of the us involvement in the Vietnam war?

Answer 1

For the US, the Vietnam War was an effort to prevent the expansion of communist influence in Southeast Asia, pitting South Vietnam (supported by the US) against the armies and guerrilla forces of North Vietnam (supported mainly by the Soviet Union).
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The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, the Vietnam Conflict or the American War, was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from September 26, 1959, to April 30, 1975. Between 1945 and 1954, the Vietnamese waged an anti-colonial war against France and received $2.6 billion in financial support from the United States. The French defeat at the battle of Dien Bien Phu was followed by a peace conference in Geneva, in which Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam received their independence. Vietnam was temporarily divided between an anti-Communist South and a Communist North. In 1956, South Vietnam, with American backing, refused to hold the unification elections. By 1958, Communist-led guerrillas known as the Viet Cong had begun to battle the South Vietnamese government.
To support the South's government, the United States sent in 2,000 military advisors, a number that grew to 16,300 in 1963. The military condition deteriorated, and by 1963 South Vietnam had lost the fertile Mekong Delta to the Vietcong.
Following a 1964 provocation known as the Tonkin Gulf Incident, the Johnson administration began direct US combat operations in 1965. The US Army drafted many thousands of US men into the service, and US forces countered most of the attacks by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese over the next 3 years. However, the protracted defensive war and increasing US casualties soon made the war unpopular, and peace talks were begun. Troop withdrawals began under Richard Nixon, and US bombing campaigns led to the Paris Peace Accords in January, 1973. In the absence of massive US support, the North's forces moved south throughout 1974, taking Saigon at the end of April, 1975.

Answer 2

The Eisenhower administration provided South Vietnam with money and advisors to help stop the threat of a North Vietnamese takeover of the South. The United States also was pledged by treaty (SEATO) to aid the member nations in southeast Asia, if they were attacked by a foreign (communist) power. Following the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, President Lyndon B. Johnson also believed in containment and the domino theory. If one nation falls to communism, the next nation will fall, and the next, etc. It became the aim of the Johnson administration to prevent a communist takeover in Southeast Asia. If communism was not stopped in Vietnam, it would spread to other areas of Southeast Asia.

Answer 3

the reason was the people in the united states don't want to spread the communism in the south Vietnam

Answer 4

The goal of (Communist) NORTH Vietnam was to conquer SOUTH Vietnam. The goal of the US/Allies was to preserve SOUTH Vietnam from that (Communist) conquest.

Answer 5

Preserve the Republic of South Vietnam from being taken over by Communist NORTH Vietnam. To keep one country from conquering Another Country; like in WW2.

Answer 6

Preserve the Republic of South Vietnam from a communist conquest.

to shift the burden of fighting to Vietnamese citizens.

Answer 7

The goal was to win -- but why? Oh, yes, to stop the spread of communism. We lost, and now we import products from Vietnam. I would have let them import without the war.

Answer 8

so we could win