Vietnam war

Was the Vietnam War really a result of communist expansionism and was the United States intellectually and morally justified for its intervention?

This Essay will discuss and examine the causes of the Vietnam War specifically addressing the notion that communist expansionism played a major role. It will also look at the role that the United States undertook in the war and if its intervention was intellectually and morally justified.

The origins of the Vietnam War date back to post World War 2 1945 when the French endeavoured to reinstate colonial rule in the indo-China region of Vietnam. Prior to this the French had colonised Vietnam in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, however under French rule the Vietnamese people where greatly oppressed. Over time a number of uprisings against the French were staged, only to be defeated by the French foreign Legion.

The Viet Minh, a Vietnamese military force primarily consisting of Guerillas, led by Ho chi Minh, a staun...