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CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE VIETNAM WAR Why was there a Vietnam War?? This question has been asked a lot of times since the war. Basically, to put a long story short it’s because the United States couldn’t keep their noses in their own business. Since this is a report I’ll tell the story. The United States war in Vietnam had no beginning and it was a series of steps between 1950-1965 “in May 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to the French, who were fighting to retain control of their Indochina, colony, including Laos and Cambodia as well as the Vietnam.” French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954 after Vietnam army defeated them; French were compelled to accede to the creation of a communist north and left a non-communist entity Sout