History Kennedy increasing involvement
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- Kennedy's increasing involvement
- success and failures
- Limited war
- Failure: Increasing usage of resources to aid Vietnam and usage of aircraft is not a Limited involvement
- Success: Compromise at Laos displayed that Kennedy did not seek a conflict with other communist nations, therefore limiting the war to vietnam
- Containment of \Communism
- Success, communism did not spread to south vietnam
- Failure: Vietcong membership and hold over south Vietnam increased instead of decreased
- Secure south Vietnam
- Failure:The removal of Diem caused the political situation in South Vietnam to enter Turmoil
- Limited war
- Reasons why
- Growing problems in south east asia
- Diem's government was unsuited to contain the situation in vietnam
- Lack of reform and discriminatory policies was creating a discontented populace
- Cold war Context, America saw itself as in competition with
- Kennedy was a firm anti communist
- Curse of appeasement, Communism should be stopped early
- Kennedy was a firm anti communist
- Domestic Politics
- Hawks pressured Kennedy into commiting to the war
- Democrats were seen as weak on communism
- Seens as lost "china
- Growing anti communist sentiment in Domestic Politics
- Growing problems in south east asia
- Degree of involvement
- Millitary
- Increasing involvement
- Usage of special forces and military aircraft to aid south Vietnamese government
- Military aid rose from $220 million to $262 million
- Number of US special advisors increased to 16,000 by 1962
- No increase in involvement
- Compromise in Laos displayed commitment to limited war
- No actual state of waw was declared
- Kennedy just continued to follow the polcies of Eisenhower
- Increasing involvement
- Economic//Polit
- Increase in involvemetn
- Death of Diem resulted in the destabalisation of the situation as a whole
- Agrovilles demonstrated American commitment
- Decrease in involvement
- Many of the reforms suggested by the American government were ignored by Diem
- Increase in involvemetn
- Millitary
- Historians
- Orthodox throy
- Increasing support from China and the USSR forced Kennedy to increase involvement
- Revisionist theory
- Exagerated Vietnams importance to help his stance in domestic politics
- Orthodox throy
- success and failures
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