Was Europe involved in the Vietnam War?

France. France had been a long-time occupier of Vietnam before 1954. In 1954, Ho’s forces won a decisive victory at Dien Bien Phu and succeeded in evicting the French once and for all. When the Second Indochina War, or Vietnam War, as it’s known in the United States, began soon after, France stayed well away.

Why was there no support for the Vietnam War?

Many Americans opposed the war on moral grounds, appalled by the devastation and violence of the war. Others claimed the conflict was a war against Vietnamese independence, or an intervention in a foreign civil war; others opposed it because they felt it lacked clear objectives and appeared to be unwinnable.

Why didn’t England get involved in the Vietnam War?

The main reason the UK didn’t enter the Vietnam war was that the newly elected PM, Harold Wilson, judged it to be unwise. This was ostensibly on military, financial and moral grounds, but perhaps dominantly it was for domestic – and indeed party – political reasons.

Why was it difficult for the US to fight in Vietnam?

Explanation: Firstly most of the war was fought as a guerrilla war. This is a type of war which conventional forces such as the US army in Vietnam, find notoriously difficult to fight. The Americans, laden down with conventional weapons and uniform were not equipped to fight in the paddy fields and jungles.

What effect did the Vietnam War have on Europe?

Although Eastern Europe had become communist after the war, it had not spread to Western Europe. However, there were large communist parties in many European countries, so the threat was ever-present. It was shown that communism may have spread to neighbouring countries but this outcome was not guaranteed.

Why did America lose in Vietnam?

America “lost” South Vietnam because it was an artificial construct created in the wake of the French loss of Indochina. Because there never was an “organic” nation of South Vietnam, when the U.S. discontinued to invest military assets into that construct, it eventually ceased to exist.

Why did US lose in Vietnam?

Why was Vietnam a failure?

Although a number of factors and influences, domestic and international, contributed to America’s defeat in Vietnam, the overriding reason the United States lost the war was one that has often fueled nations’ losing military efforts throughout history: the fundamental error in strategic judgment called “refighting the …

Did Gurkhas fight in Vietnam?

Oh, wait, there’s something interesting: the Gurkhas also participated in the First Indochina War (1945–1954) and set their foots on the soil of Vietnam, at the very first phase!

Why did America fail in Vietnam?

Failures for the USA Failure of Operation Rolling Thunder: The bombing campaign failed because the bombs often fell into empty jungle, missing their Vietcong targets. Lack of support back home: As the war dragged on more and more Americans began to oppose the war in Vietnam.

Why didn’t China help in Vietnam like it did in Korea?

From Semaphore’s excellent answer to Why China did not assist in Vietnam like they did in Korea: [I]f the Americans went beyond the bombing of the North and used ground forces to invade North Vietnam, China would have to send military fores. Second, China would give clear warning to the Americans.

What deter the United States from going to war in Vietnam?

The Cold War. Oxford University Press, 2011. Americans feared the outcome if they crossed the border into North Vietnam. The near-certainty of a second war with China deterred the Americans from taking the ground war beyond the 17th parallel. – Harper, John Lamberton.

Why didn’t the UK send troops to the Vietnam War?

As well as the many excellent responses from others, another reason the UK did not officially support the sending of UK troops to support the US etc., was that the UK had experienced its own ‘Vietnam War’ at the end of WW2, and had already learnt the hard way just who they would have been dealing with.

Could the US have taken over Hanoi in Vietnam?

If the US troops had problems fighting in the jungles of South Vietnam, they would also have problems fighting in north Vietnam. So the use of ground combat troops to take over Hanoi was not likely. The United States main tactic against the North’s territory was aerial bombing.