THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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The Soviet Union would quickly declare war on the U.S
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Laos and Cambodia would quickly become Communist countries
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The alliance between France and the U.S. would be broken.
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The people of Vietnam would suffer under a repressive dictatorship
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to the domino theory, why couldn’t America let Ho Chi Minh take over Vietnam? The alliance between France and the U.S. would be broken. Q. During the Vietnam War, how was North Vietnam different from South Vietnam?
Detailed explanation-2: -During the Cold War, the U.S. Government feared that communism would spread and threaten democracy around the world. In Vietnam, the United States committed to battling communism financially at first, by supporting South Vietnam – who fought for Vietnam to be aligned with western allies like the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -The US justified its military intervention in Vietnam by the domino theory, which stated that if one country fell under the influence of Communism, the surrounding countries would inevitably follow. The aim was to prevent Communist domination of South-East Asia.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Eisenhower’s view, the loss of Vietnam to communist control would lead to similar communist victories in neighboring countries in Southeast Asia (including Laos, Cambodia and Thailand) and elsewhere (India, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and even Australia and New Zealand).