... to use South Vietnam as an example, the administration wanted to prove to that the United States would not stand for Communist aggression. Past historic events from World War II with Adolf Hitler, at Munich in 1938, displayed that if aggression is not immediately handled the aggressors become more encouraged. Johnson and his administration also wanted to take over this war because ... own citizens rather than the rest of the world's opinion. The only war was not being fought in Vietnam but back in the United States as well. The protesting began towards the end of the war but in the civi...

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... citizens. United States knew it was time to do something about it, they could not let this spread to the US and other nations that have not yet moved politically towards Soviet Union Communist. The Policy of Containment is created so communism would be allowed to remain where it had taken root but would be allowed to go no further and ... spread communist, but the United States right away respond by moving their troops into Southern Korea even though they were not ready for war. Truman once again stand against Communist aggression in Korea so right away Truman sent ground troops to Kore...

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