There are several long-term and short-term causes, which escalated the USA involvement in the VN War.
In my opinion, it started off with the US involvement in both militaristic and political ‘Cold War’ between themselves and Russia. The CW is the intense rivalry between the USA, a capitalist nation, its allies and Russia- a communist nation and its allies. ... This was the situation in VN between NV and SV during the VN War, whereby, Russia supported the North and the US supported the South. ... As the result of these political differences, the US adopted a ‘get tough’ policy towards Russia after the war had ended. ... The CW was a war of threat and words, which was backed up by nuclear bombs.
The Cuban Missile crisis brought the US and the SU to the brink of nuclear war (Oct 1962) when the US learned that Russia had secretly installed missiles in Cuba with the aim to launch nuclear attacks on American cities. ...
During the late 1940s and 1950s the CW became increasingly intense. ... A perfect example of this is the VN War. ... This was what the US feared most, and so the Americans used this theory to justify their involvement in the VN War, and did not proven to have any validity. ... They introduced the Marshall –Aid Plan, which gave money to the Western countries in order to help them to recover after the War. ...
As mentioned above, the CW is the root of the Vietnam War. At times, these conditions increased the likelihood of the third World War. However, the VN War was the final outcome of the CW, which intensified the rivalry between the US and Russia. ... He went to France near the end of WWI, there he became involved with the French Socialist movement. ... The USA feared of the Russian Red-Scare, so decided to take swift action by supporting the Capitalist SV. The Cold War between them gradually emerged. ... This proves that HCM was gaining success over the political and social system of Vietnam. ... The obvious reason for why Russia supported NV is that if HCM was to conquer SV and turned VN into a Communist nation, then the other countries around VN will follow. ...
In my opinion, maybe NDD had taken a wrong path in this decision, because once the US got involved, they could not withdraw. ... Nobody had acknowledged the reason why. ... The US had hope that they could win the war and bring an end to the CW between them and the SU. ... To prevent this, President Diem took the idea of ‘Strategy hamlets’ from a famous British war strategic advisor. ...
The Tonkin Gulf incident was the trigger to USA increased involvement in the VN War. ... However, the US used this incident to get more involved in the VN War with continuous bombing raid on patrol boat bases and was able to claim that they destroyed 25 vessels at a cost of only 2 US aeroplanes.
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