THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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The Vietnamese rebelled against their French rulers and asked the United States for aid.
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After earning independence from France, communist leaders influenced Vietnam to abandon democracy.
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The Soviets forced China to invade Vietnam to eliminate a democratic nation in the region.
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The Vietnam War began as a civil war between communist Vietnam and Nationalist Vietnam.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Allegedly unprovoked attacks on two U.S. destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin on August 5, 1964; passage of the ensuing Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave the U.S. president new authority to wage war.
Detailed explanation-2: -The central fact of French involvement in Vietnam was the persistent seven-year effort to re-establish French colonial rule. French forces were pitted against a Communist-led revolution for national independence; at no point did France offer Vietnam the alternative of non-Communist independence.
Detailed explanation-3: -The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam) began in French Indochina from 19 December 1946 to 20 July 1954 between France and Việt Minh (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), and their respective allies.
Detailed explanation-4: -The French government recognized the independence of Vietnam as a free state within the Indochinese Federation and the French Union on March 6, 1946, but the Viet Minh refused to accept the arrangement. British troops withdrew from Vietnam in May 1946, and Chinese troops withdrew from Vietnam in July 1946.