Originally, yes in part. But pretty quickly it became about maintaining American prestige v. the Soviets. And people in American leadership did really believe the domino theory. They feared losing Vietnam of communism would lose all of Asia. That turned out to be very wrong.
Originally, yes in part. But pretty quickly it became about maintaining American prestige v. the Soviets. And people in American leadership did really believe the domino theory. They feared losing Vietnam of communism would lose all of Asia. That turned out to be very wrong.
Originally, yes in part. But pretty quickly it became about maintaining American prestige v. the Soviets. And people in American leadership did really believe the domino theory. They feared losing Vietnam of communism would lose all of Asia. That turned out to be very wrong.
France threatened that if America didn't preserve their tyranny in Vietnam then Russia might.
Right, the domino that concerned them was France.