In the 1950s and 1960s, US leaders feared that if they did not intervene, countries such as Vietnam would

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Marek Maszay · Answer 1 · 2019-11-02T10:15:01+0000

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The U.S. government considered its involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam. This was part of the domino theory of a wider containment policy, which aimed to stop the spread of communism.

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