Vietnam, as a part of Indochina, had been under French Control since 1887. After the withdrawal of French in 1954, the US intervened in the Vietnam War due to the lessons from China, Korea and domino theory, weaknesses of South Vietnam and Vietcong. The US saw China and Korea fell as dominoes in 1949 and 1953. They were not prepared to see another falling domino. Not only this, if Vietnam fell, the countries around will be influenced in the …showed first 75 words of 434 total…

…showed last 75 words of 434 total…victory for communism would be intolerable, he decided to send "Military Advisors" to South Vietnam, who were well trained, came with big guns, rockets and bombs. The US had responded to Vietnamese Communists and did actions on it to contain communism. Eventually it sent troops and in the following 25-year period, almost 3 million US men and women were sent thousands of miles to fight. In the end, over 2.5 million people on both sides were killed.