To What Extent Was The Vietnam War Justified

If a threat from one country turned every other country against you, would it be justified to try and contain them? One could argue that what the United States did and the after-effects of the Vietnam War were just brutal, but once you dive deeper into the topic you may come to realize that some of the reasons that the United States had invaded Vietnam were justified. Originally, the United States waged a war against North Vietnam because they did not believe in communism while Vietnam did, this led the United States into a war against North Vietnam. Before the Vietnam War, the United States had previously been in a communist crisis. During this time, the Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy accused people within the American Government of being Communists which turned America against each other, causing lost …show more content…
Overall, this shows that the United States had considered North Vietnam a major threat to America, which presents the idea that the invasion of North Vietnam was a justified reason because of the power, and ideas of Communism that exists within the country. People who are against the containment of the Vietnam war could make the reasoning that the United States was not justified in trying to contain Vietnam, because of the effects of Agent Orange. When the United States dropped a bomb on Agent Orange, they left many citizens in shock, and left almost 3 million people disabled; the US later covered this fact up by sending millions of dollars out. People who argued that Vietnam's containment was wrong might refer to the video source, the Vietnam War Agent Orange Legacy