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World War 2 came to a halt in triumph of the America hence placing it as a superpower.
The confidence and prestige it gained after this war made it have an interest around the world
with an aim of opening up a global market. In the meantime, it was focused on ensuring that
interests that were against its policy of capitalism especially from Russia and China were
contained as they posed a threat to their policy of capitalism (Buzzanco 16). It had interests in
Europe because it aimed at rebuilding Germany, France, Italy and other nations that were
devastated by the world war two. Its main objective was to restore them along their policy of
capitalism. By doing this, it was confident that it would prevent the Soviet Union from spreading
its policy of communism beyond Asia, Eastern Europe, and Japan.
America and Russia alleged themselves as prominent because of their great contribution
in the Second World War and thus they wanted to show the rest of the world that they were the
decreed redeemers of nations from poverty. This made them be protagonists in the cold war
because they both wanted their policy to be implemented by the rest of the world: communism
and capitalism respectively. This set foundation for the United States to intervene and this saw
military action being employed. The inexorability of this was seen by countries that understood
there was yet a short venture into the containment policy and an unpredictable globalism that
could propel the United States to use military action for weak nations around the world such as
Vietnam (Logevall 385).
French invasion of Vietnam in 1950 was resisted and United States intervened and began
to give financial and military support to the French troops. In 1950s, the French occupation of
Vietnam was fading and they needed speedy assistance from America as the communists were
opposing the United States aid to France. The situation in which France was in and the
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Americans urge to see Vietnam become independent were a major challenge. This is because
United States did not want to stop giving assistance to French, as this would allow the allies who
upheld the policy of communism to take control. They also feared that if they left Vietnam to be
controlled by the Chinese, then this would prevent the United States economic development in
Asia. To ensure that they reconcile these challenges, they increased their aid in great proportions
and offered military equipment and advisors. As this event continued, Vietnam was divided into
north and south in order to prevent its reunification following an election.
In the year, 1955 United States was unhappy with the administration instilled in South
Vietnam. The existing political ruler was a pro-American communist administrator- Diem. He
was the first ruler of South Vietnam and saw Vietnam get declared as the Republic of Vietnam.
United States then shifted all its attention to the South Vietnam Republic and due to the
