THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
JOHN F KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR
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Detailed explanation-1: -Instead, he assisted the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War, and pledged support to the communist Vietnamese during the Vietnam War. The agreements reached at the Geneva Conference rendered Laos a neutral country with general elections to occur. However, the North Vietnamese rejected the neutralization of Laos.
Detailed explanation-2: -In response to that threat, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was formed in 1955 to prevent Communist expansion. President Eisenhower sent some 700 military personnel as well military and economic aid to the government of South Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-3: -President Eisenhower pledges support to Diem’s government and military forces. Eisenhower wrote to South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and promised direct assistance to his government.
Detailed explanation-4: -Eisenhower wanted the French to defeat the Vietminh and grant independence to Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Bomb. Through 1966 the military and political landscape was flooded with complications. From the first few U.S. military advisers Eisenhower had sent to Vietnam in early 1955 the number of American troops had swelled to over 280, 000 by August 1966.