The story of JFK and the Vietnam War cannot be told without first telling the story of the political development before the war even was a possibility. At the end of World War 2 The United States no longer had to wage war against the Germans and the Japanese. Instead, The United States began to keep a watchful eye on their World War 2 ally in the Siberian North: Russia. After the fall of Nazi Germany, the Russian and American armies met for the first time on April 25, 1945, at the Elbe River in central Germany. This peaceful wartime bond would soon be greatly overshadowed by the American’s hatred for Russia’s spread of communism. The end of the war also brought an end to meetings of “The Big Three” also known as President Franklin Roosevelt,
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The Truman Doctrine proposed that the United States and all other democratic powers needed to do their part to stop the spread of communism in the world and contain communism to its current countries. The reason the Truman Doctrine is so important in John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s role in Vietnam is because it also allowed all future Presidents to send money, financial advisors, and military advisors to countries in order to prevent their fall to communism (The Truman Doctrine). Along with the Truman Doctrine came the ideas of General George Marshall. General George Marshall had visited Eastern Europe after World War 2 and has seen first hand the poverty its people faced and new the United States needed to act. Once Czechoslovakia fell to Communism the Marshall plan was put into action allowing seventeen billion dollars of the United States federal budget to be put towards the European Recovery Program or ERP (The Marshall Plan). The European Recovery Program helped millions of European citizens find work along with learn new skills to farm and better their lives. Eventually all of these ventures in Eastern Europe shifted the overall outcome as a win for democracy. The same could not be said for the adjacent continent …show more content…
Dallas was one of his first stops on his campaign trail and his campaign probably would have shed a lot of light on his future plans for Vietnam and what he planned on doing about the situation (JFK and Vietnam). Had JFK been reelected and chosen to pull out of Vietnam in his second term as President the country could’ve avoided the whole war altogether (JFK and Vietnam). Nobody will really know what JFK had planned to do towards the end of his term or in future terms because of how little the issue was addressed. The countries only option was to accept the new leadership of Lyndon B. Johnson and hope he could make the United States successful in the fight against communism in
The Truman Doctrine proposed that the United States and all other democratic powers needed to do their part to stop the spread of communism in the world and contain communism to its current countries. The reason the Truman Doctrine is so important in John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s role in Vietnam is because it also allowed all future Presidents to send money, financial advisors, and military advisors to countries in order to prevent their fall to communism (The Truman Doctrine). Along with the Truman Doctrine came the ideas of General George Marshall. General George Marshall had visited Eastern Europe after World War 2 and has seen first hand the poverty its people faced and new the United States needed to act. Once Czechoslovakia fell to Communism the Marshall plan was put into action allowing seventeen billion dollars of the United States federal budget to be put towards the European Recovery Program or ERP (The Marshall Plan). The European Recovery Program helped millions of European citizens find work along with learn new skills to farm and better their lives. Eventually all of these ventures in Eastern Europe shifted the overall outcome as a win for democracy. The same could not be said for the adjacent continent …show more content…
Dallas was one of his first stops on his campaign trail and his campaign probably would have shed a lot of light on his future plans for Vietnam and what he planned on doing about the situation (JFK and Vietnam). Had JFK been reelected and chosen to pull out of Vietnam in his second term as President the country could’ve avoided the whole war altogether (JFK and Vietnam). Nobody will really know what JFK had planned to do towards the end of his term or in future terms because of how little the issue was addressed. The countries only option was to accept the new leadership of Lyndon B. Johnson and hope he could make the United States successful in the fight against communism in