Journal: The Vietnam War What I Knew from the beginning before we had the group discussion is that in the Vietnam War was a fight between the USSR and the Americans in the country of Vietnam. And the result of the war is that the Americans lost. And during the discussion, I learned that in 1963 through 1972 there was a spread of communism. And this resulted in a Truman Doctrine Plan, which is the containment that Truman used to keep the communism from spreading throughout the world. On the other hand, there was a spread of disease that affected the people’s ability to fight, which is called malaria. While people fought with great power, people did not really didn’t understand what war is, which resulted 50 thousand American soldiers to