In the aftermath of World War ¥±, the world was divided into two hostile camps-democracy, led by the United States and communism led by the Soviet Union. That established the Cold War between two super powers, and world order was unstable. The United States succeeded to contain communism under the Truman Doctrine in Europe, but it failed in Eastern Europe. Now the United States had to look at the issues of containment in Asia. The peoples of Vietnam, led by the revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, wanted national independence with the vigor of communism from the Soviet Union and China. However, Vietnam was divided into two hostile regimes, the Vietminh in the north and the French in the south. The primary reason that French controlled Vietnam was commercial profit. The export of rubber, rice and other cash crops put money in the pockets of French merchants (Lessons 11). The United States supported the French in Vietnam from 1945 to 1954 in order to contain communism and preserve the concepts of capitalism.

Primarily, the United States supported the French in an indirect way; they refused to aid Ho Chi Minh, who wanted liberation from the French¡¯s contro

In addition to developments in Vietnam, China and Korea made the United States more concerned about communism. China had a civil war between the communists under Mao Zedong who led the struggle in the north and nationalists under China¡¯s president, Chiang Kai-shek in the south during the 1940¡¯s. During this civil war the United States sent the Nationalists approximately $3 billion in aid. (Americans 613). Even though Chiang Kai-shek received aid from the U.S, he was defeated by Mao Zedong in 1949 and China became the first communist country in Asia. From this period, the U.S was worried and feared the spread of communism throughout Asia. Korea was divided into two hostile camps, as China; democracy led by the U.S in South Korea and communism led by China and the Soviets in North Korea. On the morning of June 25, 1950, North Korea started to attack South Korea and initiated the Korean War. During more than three years of war, the U.S supported South Korea economically and militarily to push back the communists in Korea. Finally, the U.S and Soviet Union concluded an entente which stopped the fighting between each other. It was the U.S¡¯ first achievement to contain communism in Asia after China dominated. After the Korean War the U.S was deeply concerned about communism and intensified its program to prevent communist spreading. This program primary commenced in Vietnam, which region the U.S worried the spread of communism after China and Korea.

The U.S also became involved in Vietnam because the U.S vexed that all of Asia turn

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