Why was the US involved in the Vietnam War?
Since the start of the Cold War, the USA had become increasingly afraid of the spread of communism. Interestingly, this was never the Soviets’ objective. While countries embraced Leninism, for example Cuba, this was never a policy that the USSR actively pursued. But American anti-communist paranoia resulted in an overwhelming fear of more countries falling to communist ideology. In the 1950s under the auspices of John Foster Dulles, a rabid anti-communist Secretary of State for the Eisenhower administration, the Domino Theory was developed. He posited that if communism was allowed
