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North and South Vietnam, United States, Soviet  Union

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North and South Vietnam, United States, Soviet  Union

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they wanted to unify Vietnam under communism

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didn't want to become communist

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Lyndon Baines Johnson
He was the president at the time in the United States and put more American soldiers in Vietnam.

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Vietnam’s infrastructure that was destroyed and farmland was polluted by American chemical warfare. (about 12 million became refugees who fled to neighboring countries)

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They backed northern Vietnam. They used diplomatic strategies to talk to the US (1968-1973) to get them to withdraw

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North Vietnam which was backed by the USSR wanted to unify Vietnam under their ideology (communism), but South Vietnam was against this and got support from the US to try to unify Vietnam as an anti-communist nation. This then became more of a conflict between the US and the Soviet Union in the US' eyes than the issues North and South Vietnam were fighting for.

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The United States failed to “contain” communism despite all the money and troops they sacrificed.

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the short term affect was the fact that many people died and many farms were destroyed and and the long term affect was Vietnam became communist and the US withdrew from the Truman doctrine.

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They backed southern Vietnam. They trained Vietnamese soldiers, used chemical warfare (Agent Orange), sent airstrikes and soldiers

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communism was expanded as South Vietnam conceded to North Vietnam after the US began to withdraw its support, making Vietnam a unified communist country. The US did not stop or contain the spread of communism in Vietnam