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One reason the United States became involved in the Vietnam war was to what

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The United States feared that since China and North Vietnam were controlled by the communists that it would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia.

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The North Vietnamese attacked the US Navy in the Gulf of Tonkin. This incident gave the USA the excuse it needed to escalate the war

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