VIETNAM WAR. CONFLICT OF IDEOLOGY.(updated)
By K P PASWAN. Vietnam war was started by J. F Kennedy, the president of US to counter the USSR under Nikita Khrushchev and China, under Mao Zedong. The war resulted in heavy causalities and there was mass agitation in US, against a war being fought with a poor country. When China adopted Communism, George S,Trueman,the war time president of USA did not launch war against China, and instead maintained friendship with a ruthless Stalin, the strongman of USSR, and this friendship was not appreciated by Great Britain. Cold war was brewing, affecting the entire world. USSR achieved spectacular parity with US in military power. Mutual mistrust between super powers led to cold war which was being fought diplomatically and by spreading conflicting capacity of nuclear strength of two super power. Vietnam war veterans in US are given extraordinary importance. A few Congress members and even Senators fought in Vietnam. But the deadly war in Vietnam failed to ravage the nation ...