THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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He wanted to keep the Soviet Union out of Indochina.
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He did not want the country invaded by China.
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He wanted it as a base in the Korean War
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He did not want Vietnam to become communist.
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Detailed explanation-1: -President Truman’s decision to aid the French in Vietnam was influenced by what concern? He wanted to keep the Soviet Union out of Indochina.
Detailed explanation-2: -But when France went to war to recolonize Vietnam in 1945, the U.S. government needed its ally’s cooperation to contain the spread of communism in Europe.
Detailed explanation-3: -2) WHAT TWO EVENTS CONVINCED TRUMAN TO HELP FRANCE IN VIETNAM.-THE FALL OF CHINA TO COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT AND THE OUT BREAK OF THE KOREAN WAR.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Truman argued that the United States should actively support the containment of Soviet Communism in the years immediately after World War II. Further to this idea, the reasons for American involvement in the Vietnam War are often held as part of the Domino Theory.