Vietnam War Causes

The Vietnam war was fought for roughly twenty years. It began on November 1st, 1955 and ended on April 30th, 1975. The cause of the war was because America was afraid that communism was spreading throughout South-east Asia. The Vietnam war is looked upon as being one of the most unpopular wars in America’s history, more than three million people died in total (Williams). The Vietnam war is an unforgettable war that the United States fought in. There were many deaths including innocent civilians. The war had a high cost that the country could have used the money for better causes. Many believed that the United States should never gone to war. People began protesting against the United States being in Vietnam and hated on the soldiers as they …show more content…
There was a total of around 3 million deaths. The United States lost around 58,000 troops lives. South Vietnam lost an estimate of 110,000 troops in the war and an estimate of 415,000 civilian lives. “Estimates of the number of people killed in Indochina range from two and a half million to more than four million. An even greater number were maimed, disfigured, orphaned, displaced or forced to flee as refugees. The Vietnam War was fought for civilians, by civilians and among civilians – and the majority of casualties were civilians” (Costs of Vietnam War). The deaths of the war were also televised to the United States civilians and it showed civilians being killed in Vietnam. The citizens of the United States saw the viewing vulgar and disturbing making them dislike the soldiers and the government for what they were doing and eventually turned against them and started protesting. When the soldiers returned home from the war they were hated on and yelled …show more content…
The war also was unwinnable, we faced many things that made us unable to win. The North Vietnamese were way more powerful and ready for the war. Also our government did not think we could win the war so our troops had no hope in them. Lastly the South Vietnam stopped focusing on the war and made us fight without much help or effort from them. “United States had been on the verge of winning in Vietnam, but threw its chance for victory away because of negative press and a resulting failure of political will at home” (Boylan). “The problem, the optimists argued, was that just as during the Vietnam War naysaying pundits and politicians were not merely undermining popular support for the war, but giving our enemies hope that they could win by waiting for the American people to lose their will to continue the fight”(Boylan). Was the Vietnam war our war? Was it winnable? The answer is no, it was not our war or was it winnable. The Vietnam war is one of the most unpopular war and most dreaded on in the history of the United States. Many people dislike the Vietnam war because it was not our war and we should not have got involved and wasted all of the money troops and supplies. Would it really have affected the United States atat all if we would not have got involved? Many believe the