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Resons for Us involvment in Vietnam
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... Reasons for US involvement in Vietnam What can you learn from Source A about why the USA became involved in Vietnam? From Source A you can learn that Kennedy wanted to help out the South Vietnamese by wanting to give them US technology and giving them economic aid. Kennedy sees it as a fight against communism and by giving South Vietnam aid it might bring them to his side to try and wipe out communism if his side wins, and he also wants a Marshall plan for Vietnam. There is no mention of troops in this source. This source was published in 1991 in a school textbook. 1991 was the end of the cold war, and the cold war was heading to South East Asia. Do sources B and C support the evidence of Source A about US involvement in Vietnam? I don't think that Sources B and C do support the evidence














