Why did america get involved in vietnam in the 1950s?
A paronoid fear of socilist policies. The Cold War was the period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s. The use of Nuclear weapons in long range bombers developed for the Pacific campaign in WWII started an arms build up immediately after the war. The term “Cold War” was introduced in 1947 by Americans Bernard Baruch and Walter Lippmann to describe emerging tensions between the two former wartime allies. The Cold War spread outside Europe to every region of the world, as the U.S. sought the “containment” of communism and forged numerous alliances to this end. There were repeated crises that threatened to escalate into world wars but never did, the first was the Korean War (1950-1953). In 1941, Viet Minh – a communist and nationalist liberation movement emerged under Ho Chi Minh, to seek independence for Vietnam from France as well as to oppose the Japanese occupation. Iro
