How America became increasingly involved in VietnamAmerica - The world's major power in the 1940s, with no rivals other than the expanding fog of communism. The fog that began in the USSR and spread throughout the world. America had come up with a theory, "The Domino Effect", which will be explained in detail later, but very simply the Americans thought that if one country were to fall into communism, then the adjacent countries would also become communist, like dominoes falling under each other's weight. . America believed in “containing” communism and not letting it spread across the continents. They aimed to do this by effectively controlling a country with a strong democracy to stop the next “domino” falling. Eastern Europe had fallen under the veil of communism and was effectively under Russian rule. Communism began to subjugate the Indochinese countries, the first country to lean towards communist ways was Vietnam, the first domino. The internal parties, mainly the Vietminh who were under the control of Ho ChiMinh, a communist believer and an inspirational and influential person, were putting pressure on the people of the country as well as external pressure from the giant communist countries which were China and Russia,” The Red Giants". '. This relatively small country had not been independent since 1859, when the French captured Saigon after years of incessant fighting. Then hope came in a dark time, World War II raged across Europe, France fell under waves of oppression from Germany. French troops stationed in Vietnam were immediately...undocumented...with "advisers" and equipment for the South Vietnamese army. Two aircraft carriers are reportedly attacked, which gives the green light to bombing North Vietnam. This triggered attacks by the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) across the country of South Vietnam, which led to the US deploying Marines to South Vietnam. Simple logic would assume that the way to stop the spread of communism in South Vietnam were to "cut off the head" of the beast and ground troops in North Vietnam. But the political implications would have been enormous, given that North Vietnam had Chinese and Russian support, the “Red Giants”. United States money and men began pouring into the country, which never had any overall effect. The "body count" statistics would show that the United States and South Vietnam were winning. Nothing was further from the truth …