If it was not to prevent communism...........then why did our government....................put out a forced draft............have at one point................500,000 troops in Vietnam..........half a million Americans................bomb North Vietnam more than they did Nazi Germany??



The U.S. government viewed 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, with the stated aim of stopping the spread of communism worldwide.