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by We_stand_alone_together on April 20th, 2007

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What Caused vietnam war?

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  • by WoOZackWoO on August 10th, 2008

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    When Vietnam was finally granted independance by the French government, the country was divided by two leaders, on Communist, on Capitalist.

    The communist leader was Ho Chi Mihn.

    The capitalist leader was Ngo Diem Dihn.

    When they couldn't agree on how the government was to be won, the world stepped in and basically set up a conference between everyone and set up Vietnam to divide in half for 2 years, the North lead by Ho Chi Mihn, the south lead by Ngo Diem Dihn.

    After those two years, the people of Vietnam would vote for the type of government they wanted, the South leader knew he was going to lose, so decided to stop going by the rules and started a war.

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  • by denise on April 20th, 2007

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    The same thing that caused every other war. Greed. The North tried to take over the South, the South asked the USA for help and it escalated from there. Or that's my understanding of it. Anyone got a more detailed answer please.

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  • by Sheila3444 on October 17th, 2008

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    http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/history/index.html

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  • by 2highspeed on September 4th, 2008

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    A lot of things led up to the start of the war, but you can thank JFK for really getting it going. JFK in a briefing with his intel folks, mentioned that the S. Vietnamese needed a coup. The Intel folks thought he was giving the GO for them to arrange it. When they did, it caused a spiraling instability ever since. The S. Vietnamese president it turns out was the only thing really holding things together. Below is the link to hear JFK talk about his blunder.

    http://tapes.millercenter.virginia.edu/clips/1963_1104_jfk_vietnam_memoir.swf.

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  • by littlepinkangel on March 4th, 2008

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    I agree with Marcus accept on a few details.

    The communist North didn't just try to reunite the country as communist for no reason. At the Geneva agreements it was agreed for there to be free elections held in 1956, so that the people could decide if they wanted to be communist or capatalist.

    However, the capatalist leader Diem was extremally harsh and unpopular, by the time the 1956 elections came around, the majority of the South Vietnamese population wanted to be communist. In order to stop this from happening, the USA, under President Eisenhower, rigged the election - remember this was the time of the red scare. (Very hypocritical as Eisenhower had been accusing Stalin of rigging the elections in Eastern Europe)

    We know it was rigged because Diem recieved 605,000 votes even though there were only 450,000 voters!

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  • by Jimmyp on October 17th, 2008

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    The US was afraid that if Communism got a foot hold in Asia, there would be a domino effect whereas many other countries would "go" communist such as China. There was an overwhelming fear of that the whole eastern hemisphere would turn against the US eventually.

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  • by TERRYTUKER on September 4th, 2008

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    not us

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  • by Chris says AYBABTU on October 17th, 2008

    Chris says AYBABTU

    route are in the japanese occupation of indo china but the spark was the gulf of tonkin incodent when three VC P-4 torpedo boats attacked the USS Maddox

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  • by dumdum on October 17th, 2008

    dumdum

    Hubris

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  • by Rinky Dinky Do on October 17th, 2008

    Rinky Dinky Do

    Does anybody, other than the master planners, really know? I'm sure that 100 years from now, the Iraq war will probably be thought off as a response to 9/11 - Ha ha ha!

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  • by mr. Bill on August 10th, 2008

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    China! Mr Bill

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