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Why did the US intervene in Vietnam? To what extent did domestic

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Why did the US intervene in Vietnam?

To what extent did domestic pressures influence the decision to intervene and later to withdraw?
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>>1101833
>Why did the US intervene in Vietnam?
Protect the rubber industry and remove communist influence.
>To what extent did domestic pressures influence the decision to intervene and later to withdraw?
A good portion of it.
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>>1101833
All I know is that they got their asses whooped and Americans will give themselves a brain hernia doing mental gymnastics to deny it.
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>>1101948
>pulling out and telling the south vietnam to defend your own war
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Because there'd been the Gary Powers Shootdown, the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall, the Neutralization of Laos and the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 4 years before 1964.

LBJ figured America was on the ropes.

Keep in mind this is a guy who cut his teeth working for FDR in the 30s, so he saw these events as a creeping communist expansion, the same as the German expansion during the appeasement period.
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>>1101948
>Americans absolutely ravage the vietcong
>can't push too far north without fear of a total Chinese intervention
>try to train south Vietnamese to handle their own shit, but they're incredibly incompetent to the point where a coup was necessary
>waste money and soldiers, with high social pressure at home to pull out

America is really, really good at direct war. America is really, really bad at the long game.
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>>1101833
>Why did the US intervene in Vietnam?
>To what extent did domestic pressures influence the decision to intervene and later to withdraw?
To stop Gobbunism ala Korea 20 years earlier

>To what extent did domestic pressures influence the decision to intervene and later to withdraw?
Extensive pressure, Nixon wanted to look good for reelection so he caved in to a lot of progressive demands, including removing the draft.
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