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America wanted to stamp out Communism in South East Asia. They also looked at this an an opportunity to fight the soviets but not directly , this is called a proxy war. Such proxy wars happened in Afghanistan and Korea and now in Syria. For evidence , the United states president at the time lyndon b Johnson said " the Soviet threat is only going to get bigger and we have to take âction now"