Vietnam War Dbq Analysis

The amount of blood and tears shed for this country is ridiculous, considering how unnecessary most of it ended up being. The Vietnam War, which was the longest war since the Cold War, was a war between Southern Vietnam and Northern Vietnam in which the United States became involved in on South Vietnam’s side. It was originally fought because Vietnam wanted to declare its independence from France stating, “Vietnam has the right to be free and independent country and in fact is so already,” but the conflict quickly converted to a civil war between North and South Vietnam (Doc. 1- Declaration of Independence- Democratic Republic of Vietnam). The United States put themselves in the middle of it in hopes of preventing “the countries of Southeast Asia from passing into the communist orbit, and to assist them to develop the will and ability to resist communism from within and without and to contribute to the strengthening of the free world” (Doc 8- Policy Statement about American objectives in Southeast Asia). The Vietnam War only caused more problems for the U.S. and South Vietnam than should have happened though.
Although the U.S. got involved to try and help the situation based on their statement that “a threat to any nation in that region is a threat to us,” but all it did was cause more issues and left the U.S. with no real victory as well as with millions of unnecessary casualties on both sides (Doc. 7- L.B. Johnson, Tonkin Gulf Resolution 1964). The efforts put into the war including the lives of dedicated soldiers, precious amounts of government money and tons of hope put in possible victory all ended up being complete wastes. Therefore, no, the United States should not have entered the war in