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•America’s involvement in Vietnam began in the 1950s
•USA Give French Massive economic and Military aid to fight communism
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• France’s attempt to reestablish rule in Vietnam after World War II
• From late 1800s until World War II France ruled most of Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia)
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•Helped create Indochinese Communist Party
•Won Popular in North Vietnam support by breaking up large estates and redistributing land to the peasants
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• Japanese took control of Vietnam
• Ho Chi Minh helped create the Vietminh
• Goal was to win Vietnam’s independence from foreign rule
• 1945 Vietnam independent nation
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• In 1945 France controls south Vietnam
• President Truman pumps money into France’s war
• Ho Chi Minh one time ally of ours
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•Domino Theory – countries on the brink of communism were waiting to fall one after the other
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•At the battle of DIEN BIEN PHU – France now surrenders to the Vietminh
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• Geneva, Switzerland• Temporarily divided
Vietnam along the 17th Parallel
• North Vietnam = Ho Chi Minh and Communism
• South Vietnam = anticommunists
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• South Vietnam’s President
• Anticommunist• Country wide election
between Ngo Dinh Diem and Ho Chi Minh cancelled because Americans fear Ho Chi Minh would win
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• Corrupt government• Little or no land
distribution to peasants• He was Catholic • Restricted Buddhist
practices• Results in formation of
Vietcong
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• Communist group in South Vietnam
• Fought Diem Government
• Later called NLF – NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT
• Ho Chi Minh supports the Vietcong
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•Path along borders of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to supply arms to Vietcong
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• In response to accusations that the Democrats were soft on Communism…… HE
• Increased financial aid to Diem
• Sent thousands of military advisors to help train south Vietnamese troops