How did the Cold War influence presidential decision making about Vietnam from 1945 to 1975?
What will be an ideal response?
U.S. policies and actions in Vietnam were guided by fear that a Communist government there would enable communism to spread throughout Southeast Asia. In 1945, the fear was that the Vietnamese Communists would be puppets of the Soviet Union. After the construction of the Berlin Wall and the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Kennedy feared he needed to support South Vietnam to varnish his anti-communist credentials. Johnson also feared being perceived as weak if he were to "lose" Vietnam. Nixon's goal was to end the Cold War with a new balance of power; thus, he courted both China and the USSR and tried to play them against each other.
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