Vietnam War Case Study

1.The main idea of the Domino Theory was countries who were on the tip of communism were going to go downhill. The presidential policies in Vietnam was the leader Ho Chi Minh who was a communist leader ran the country and he ruled the North part of Vietnam. On the other side, leaders who were against communism ruled South Vietnam. The presidential policies created a divide between North and South Vietnam.

2. Open Rolling Thunder was a plan by America to place an attack on North Vietnam in which they were against their communist ways. The strategies was using a bombardment that was huge and they wanted cause North Vietnam to become weaker. They used this strategy as a way for North Vietnam to not go into war with South Vietnam. Another strategy was America gave help to South Vietnam with help from the military to attack bases in North Vietnam. The outcomes were the North Vietnam created an alliance with China and the Soviet Union and they gained a lot prisoners from America. Another outcome was that the U.S. still continued to attack North Vietnam and created Operation Linebacker.

3. Military strategies for the North Vietnamese where

MacArthur who was in charge of the UN forces created a dismantle causing the 38th parallel to go backwards. The U.S. became involved in Korea areas and North Korea was tired of this. Even, citizens back in the U.S. were tired of war and did not want it to continue. The U.S. spent a lot of money in the war effort, which caused people to become angry. In Vietnam, their leader wanted to go away from capitalism and wanted communism. Americans wanted to prevent communism from spreading and did not want to go into war. Operation Rolling Thunder was created as a way for the U.S. to had pressure to North Korea. The North Vietnamese decided to fight back and the Soviet Union helped them. The U.S. citizens lost trust in their government because they did not want to go to