Communism is indeed one of the most dangerous and horrible political ideologies, not as bad as Anarchy but certainly worse than Fascism. And so it should be no surprise that when outbreaks of Communism arose in North Vietnam, ant-Communist forces came to the defense of righteousness.
In 1954, the Geneva Accords partitioned Indochina in twain. The north was ruled by a Communist government under Ho Chi Minh, and the South was ruled by a democratic government under Ngo Dinh Diem. In 1959, Communist guerrilla forces began to harm the South Vietnamese government. The U.S. deployed military advisors and began training the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). A Vietnamese torpedo boat attacked the USS Maddox. Congress gave permission to President Lyndon B. Johnson to conduct military operations against North Vietnam on August 10, 1964, and by March 2, 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines were deployed, marking the beginning of the U.S. ground war. That same day, the U.S. began airstrikes against North Vietnam as part of Operation Rolling Thunder. By November 1st of 1968, the air campaign had failed, and after the Tet Offensive, where Communist forces pushed deep into South Vietnam with little military success, American public opinion turned against the war. U.S. involvement ended in 1973.
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