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The Vietnam War

1. Introduction.

I have chose to write about the Vietnam War because it is very exciting, and it have a lot of political and military questions that haven’t been cleared out. I would like find out why the US wanted to join the war, and why did they lose the war, and what did the people in the US say about the war.

2. The story of Vietnam

Within the war the U.S had the intention to keep South-Vietnam free for communism, and that was also the intention under the war until 1965, where it more than less was gone. In the mid-nineteenth century, France had the control of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. But in 1954, France was forced out of Vietnam and therefore there were no one left to be the anticommunist in the region, except South-Vietnam.
The American President Dwight D. Eisenhower, came up with the Domino-Theory which says: "If one country becomes communist, the other countries will fall one by one." They thought Asia would become communist too if the USA......

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