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After World War II, President Truman saw communism as the biggest threat to democratic society. The communistic country at the time that the U.S. were fearing the most was the Soviet Union. Other than that, the U.S. didn't have much to worry about, until the Chinese communist forces won the civil war in China. Now the U.S. feared all of Southeast Asia might fall to communism. In 1945, after World War II, France tried to regain control of their communistic colonies in Southeast Asia, after they lost control of them during WWII. During WWII, Japan saw an opportunity to take the French colonies. After the French saw this, they began were fighting Ho Chi Minh and his communist rebels. Starting in 1950, the U.S. started to send military aid to France to help in its effort against the Viet Minh communist rebels. This was part of the U.S. goal of "containment" of the spread of communism. Before the U.S. invaded Vietnam, the conditions for civilians were terrible. A huge percentage of the population of Vietnam either lived in extreme poverty or wealth, this is not a good economic balance. Because of this, much of the poverty ridden community was drawn to the promises and and pleasures that communism could bring. This inevitable brought the country to a breaking point; the Communists in the North, the Democrats in the south. Both of the countries were lured by the Viet Cong to help fight away the anti-Communistic countries (i.e. the United States). |
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