Why did the United States go to war in Vietnam?
~I assume you want something akin to the “truth”. It’s a long story and this is over-simplified, but I’ll try. The Vietnamese people had been fighting for their independence for decades by 1940. After Hitler launched Fall Weiss, France and the UK declared war on Germany. Hitler’s fervent hope and desire was to forge an alliance with the UK, and possibly France and the US) against the USSR. From Mein Kampf on, he made no bones of the fact that his quest for Lebensraum was directed towards Eastern Europe and Western Russia. He also made it abundantly clear that his primary goal was to destroy the USSR and to eradicate Communism from the globe. He allowed the Phoney War to proceed until it was clear that the UK wasn’t going to play ball. He gave them the war they had declared, and crushed them in a matter of 6 weeks (but he did stop his tanks and allowed the British to escape from Dunkirk – still hoping for an Anglo-German alliance). After France fell, the Vichy government assumed control
