Vietnam War

The Vietnam War War affects millions of people in different ways everyday. The United States government involvement in the Vietnam War only led to millions more deaths of american and vietamese people. The United States started sending military around 1957 to assist the south vietemese army known as the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. By the time the United States government withdrew there men they left vietnamin an even worse condition then when they arrived. The United States government should have never intervened in the affairs of another countrys problems. With the Truman Doctrine in effect and the escalating conflict between north ans south vietnamthe United States government felt it was neccesary to intervene. In 1947 president Henry Truman created the Truman doctrine which states that the United States government would help any free people or nation resist internal or external subjagation by another country or non democratic government. Using the Truman doctrine the United States government was able to enter into Vietnam conflict thus starting Americas involvement in the Vietnam War. United States goverment sent the first combat troops into Vietnam in 1965. They believed that if they got involved in the Vietnam War they would be able to stop the domino theory. Dwight D. Eisenhower describes the theory at the Presidential Press Conference on April 7 1954. "You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly."(Eisenhower 98) The government believed that if one country fell to the communist government its neighbors would then fall too. They believed that if SouthVietnam fell to communism south Asia may do the same, this domino effect would then affect american trading. American economy would decline causing the United States to not be able to maintain a well trained army without the money to do so in turn it would make the United States look weak.