Vietnam short summary

Vietnam
By Dane Christiansen
I am doing my report on Vietnam. First of all, in my opinion the United states shouldn’t have ever been involved in. In north Vietnam it was a battle for south Vietnam, so that they would be a unified communist nation. To prevent the taking over of another communistic country, the U.S. held on to the Truman Doctrine, as you said, and stood behind the south Vietnamese people.
Then after Kennedy was killed Johnson took over and pumped a lot of money into the war, along with a lot more troops. Then to make Johnson look ok that he did this, congress passed the gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving the president full military power. After Johnson dramatically escalated the amount of soldiers in Vietnam, the north Vietnamese mounted a surprise attack during the Vietnamese new y...