The Vietnam War
Bullets cut through the air with blazing speed. Cutting skin as it sped through the air. Piercing cries of pain followed. It seemed like the terror and violence wouldn't end. What could men do against such reckless hate ? So what was the Vietnam war all about, and why did the United States feel they had to get involved ?
President Harry Truman established a foreign policy doctrine commonly known as "Containment". This new doctrine was intended to prevent the spread of Communism. The containment doctrine simply stated that any new communist government had to be either part of the "American empire" or the Soviet empire. It also declared the United States pledge to stop any new communist government that was seeking to expand it's boarders. However Harry Truman had no idea this new foreign policy would be one of the reasons that would lead the United States into Vietnam in 1965.
Then in 1954 Ho Chi Mihn after defeating......
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