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The United States was well into its policies of containment when they decided that it was important to make sure that South Vietnam did not go communist after Ho Chi-Minh had taken control and had popular support in the North. ... The intervention in Vietnam was viewed as a way of further containing communism, but when one takes a closer look at the evidence they will realize that the fall of the South would have little to do with the spread of Communism throughout the rest of the region and world. ... Ho Chi-Minh was indeed a communist but he was also a nationalist, and a nationalistic Vietnam would prove to be more of a problem then a solution to China’s plans to create a hegemony in Southeast Asia. China would have had a much easier time taken control of Vietnam if a unpopular leader was in charge rather than Ho Chi-Minh. ... America also feared that Vietnam would join the Sino-Soviet block thus helping to strengthen the specter of global communism, but history has shown us that the Chinese and Soviet governments did not get along very well due to their difference in view of the direction of communism and also how they should go about combating America.
Approximate Word count = 808
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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