the U.S. play the role as big brother by bringing troops, guns, and supplies into Vietnam. they werent successful because they thought it would be like korea but instead it was a very mountainous terrain and heavily vegetated. also, the vc and north vietnamese army were a guerilla army which the us was not prepared for.
Capitalists created the economic force that drove the revolution while the inventors created new technology that made it it easier to create products and make more money which in turn helped the capitalists.