THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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encourage a higher birth rate among Vietnamese.
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search out enemy strongholds and destroy them.
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help differentiate Vietcong fighters from South Vietnamese civilians.
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win the “hearts and minds” of the South Vietnamese people.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pacification, once it had been fully fleshed out, freed South Vietnam from communist subversion and forced the communists to broker a peace with the United States and to carry out mass military offensives against South Vietnam as they could no longer win by soft power and ideology.
Detailed explanation-2: -Learn how France used a program called Pacification to try to win over the rural Vietnamese, including building infrastructure and vaccinating children, and see the reaction of opposition groups, such as the Communists and Viet Minh, who wanted independence.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fighting on familiar ground They won the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese people by living in their villages and helping them with their everyday lives. Their tunnel systems, booby-traps and jungle cover meant they were difficult to defeat and hard to find.