... of the communist party. Much of the country lay in devastation and ruin. Mao proclaimed that the Soviet Union should be the model for China to follow after and imitate their communism. They copied the Soviets one-party system with Mao holding the positions of president of the republic, head ... for their own benefit and rural collectivization was deferred until later. By 1956 however things had changed and the entire Chinese economy was under state control. China then endured Mao's Great Leap forward, in which he believed that socialism could triumph over capitalism or more directly tha...

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... than in Vietnam.9 Conflict between Vietnam and Cambodia had some great power overtones. After the Khmer Rouge took power, they looked to China for protection from the Vietnamese. An estimate of 60,000 North Vietnam and Viet Cong troops were stationed in Cambodia at the time of ... United States supported a military coup in Cambodia that eventually ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Pol Pot took over. Pol Pot was influenced by China's great leap forward. He moved everyone from cities to the country. They lived as peasants in farming communities. Conflict and Oppression of the ... Delta, ...

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Air Force Special Operation Forces during the Indo-China War In the year of 1960, the Laotian government was collapsing, and the powerful and demanding communist forces were invading. A revolutionary war was being fought in Laos and the communist ... ...

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... 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 ... Ho Chi Minh, because the United States didn't want to make France outraged. After Truman refused to assist Ho Chi Minh, Ho found support from China and the Soviet Union. Effect of Truman's lack of support was that Ho Chi Minh turn to the communists. On September 2, 1945, Ho Chi ... billion in aid. (Am...

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... several thousands miles from Vietnam, on Korean peninsula bloody Korean War ended with July 27, 1953 cease fire agreement between communist North Korea backed by China and US along with UN. Communist expansion has been feared much by the United States, especially after the Korean War. Cold war begins to ... War and the Americans tried to support the order in their side of the world." North Vietnam has been backed by Soviet Union and China. "The Soviet Union agreed yesterday to give North Vietnam more technical and economic aid....It was the second Soviet-North Vietnamese aid agreement si...

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... ) aided Spain's path to totalitarianism (which ended up appearing as meaningless slaughtering of civilians). In the Orient, recently turned communist Japan started tearing apart at China, killing hundreds of thousands of Chinese in order to acquire more living space (a World War II trend). Still, the League of Nations and the United ... When the North finally attacked, South Korea was very unprepared. The United States entered under the sanction of the UN and sent a fleet to prevent China from taking over Formosa (Taiwan) while busy with the situation in Korea. In haste, South Koreans qu...

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... in their own right. Also, many other countries were involved in their decolonization process like Japan, the United States and at times China. To understand the trials and tribulations of the decolonization process that went in on in both Vietnam and Burma, we must understand how ... in contrast to Burma, the Vietnamese had always been under someone's thumb even before the French arrived. In the early history of the nation, China invaded and dominated the country on four different occasions. This inevitably made the Chinese a distinct enemy to the Vietnamese. In the mid-1800s, ... grew in...

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... hydroelectric plants in the North Korea which could be controlled by U.S forces. As a result, international and domestic rioting would occur, also the question would arise of whether communistic society that China was using was better than the capitalistic democracy that the United States was using. The Vietnam War was similar in that it was caused by the conflicting ideals of communistic ... , they are very unreasonable whenever they can't get away with it, if they become a little bit reasonable, it was because they had no other choice." (5) This statement is true. When China entered th...

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... with the planning of the function and setting explicit goals rather than making explicit trade offs. Foreign policy was a major issue, with the Vietnam war right under the fingertips and China knocking at the door, the Nixon administration was at a high intensity rate with foreign affairs. Nixon first issue was ending the Vietnam war. He would make and Doctrine the would ... the United States. Nixon sent for international affairs aid Henry Kissinger to secretly hold talks with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in attempt to reopen the door. Nixon went to Communist China in 1972, after eighty d...

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... than a year previous, sought only to peacefully gain their independence from France (Chant 25). In January of 1950, the Viet Minh gained recognition by the governments of the USSR and China, who supplied weapons and places to train (Chant 25). Because the two Communist superpowers recognized the Viet Minh, the Vietnam war became to the U.S. a struggle between capitalism and communism, ... (Goldstein 3). The U.S. feared that Vietnam would fall to communism, and set-off the "domino effect- for other communist satellites in Indochina (McNamara 76). With weapons and training from Russia and...

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... than a year previous, sought only to peacefully gain their independence from France (Chant 25). In January of 1950, the Viet Minh gained recognition by the governments of the USSR and China, who supplied weapons and places to train (Chant 25). Because the two Communist superpowers recognized the Viet Minh, the Vietnam war became to the U.S. a struggle between capitalism and communism, ... (Goldstein 3). The U.S. feared that Vietnam would fall to communism, and set-off the "domino effect- for other communist satellites in Indochina (McNamara 76). With weapons and training from Russia and...

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... was Syngman Rhee. Korea's biggest problem has always been the lack of resources. Even today, the limited natural resources and small population have deprived them of being a more powerful nation. China entered the war on October 19th, 1950.   General MacArthur sent American troops deep into the South. United State Senators went on television and radio and demanded that Truman use atomic ... bombs on Korea and on Red China. But General MacArthur publicly disagreed with President Truman. On April 11th, 1951, Truman dismissed MacArthur and replaced him with Matthew Ridgway. Some positive ...

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... , Nixon, got in on the express condition that he would give "peace with honour" and "bring back our boys". Détente was the easing of international tensions. Previously China and USSR who were inseparable had fallen out over the easing of pressure on America. This turned the cold war into a three-way distrust from a two way one. All ... the countries had good reasons to want a warming of the cold war: America wanted to separate the USSR and China, as together they were too much of a threat to America. It could mean the end to the aid given by the USSR and ... China to Vietnam. America w...

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... world and America listened. Korea was engaged in a civil war as an attempt to keep North Korea from thrusting its influence on South Korea. Communist Russia and China were strong supporters of the North, and to keep Communism contained the United States sent troops to the South. Our troops spent years fighting and dying for a ... recapture North Korea. They decided to go on. After the 38th was crossed putting the US and South Korean forces in the North , China threatened to send troops in to defend North Korea. After many deliberations the United States decided to continue on. As they sa...

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China is controlling most of the four countries and Americans lost some of these lands. Sent Gordon, an American businessman, owner of Cal Texaco, into VN to find out what's going ... loved them because they"re anti-French, anti-Japanese, and the only VN forces that has weapons & rebel against the Japanese. The OSS office in China has record of Ho Chi Minh. HCM returns to China from Russia and collaborate with the Chinese communists (aside: he asked Woodrow Wilson to drive out the French). Chinese arrested him. But they needed someone to ... and killed thousands of French. So FDR relented a...

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... supplies for the Communist forces in the South. He took these actions because when the North Vietnamese offensive threatened the Saigon government, it endangered the results of Nixon's trip to China and his trip to the Soviet Union. A cease-fire was brought about on January 28, 1973, which sent all of the US troops home, and Nixon was able to release ... about 600 US prisoners. Nixon wanted to create better relations with China. He reduced the trade embargo against them. Then China invited him for a visit there in February 1972, and was received by Chairman Mao Tse-tung. The meeting of ...

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... Harry S. Truman and other American leaders, having no sympathy for French colonialism, favored Vietnamese independence. But expanding communist control of Eastern Europe and the triumph of the communists in China's civil was made France's war against Ho seem an anticommunist rather than a colonialist effort. When France agreed to a quansi-independent Vietnam under Emperor Bao Dai as an alternative to ... Asia. The outbreak of war in Korea in 1950 served primarily to confirm Washington's belief that communist aggression posed a great danger to Asia . Subsequent charges that Truman had "lo...

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... France attempted to re-establish control over Vietnam. In January 1946, Britain agreed to remove her troops and later that year, China left Vietnam in exchange for a promise from France that she would give up her rights to territory in China. Emperor Bao Dai went into exile in Hong Kong in March, 1946. After signing an accord recognising Vietnamese national unity within ... , had great difficulty in coping with the better trained and equipped French forces. The situation improved in 1949 after Mao Zedong and his communist army defeated Chaing Kai-Shek in China. The Vietminh now had a saf...

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... is a string of mountains known to the Vietnamese as Truong Son (Central Mountains). Beyond the Truong Son lie Vietnam's immediate neighbors, Laos and Cambodia. Its eastern border is the South China Sea. The entire country lies within the tropical zone. It is a region of dense jungles, swamps and lush rice paddies. The temperature rarely falls below fifty degrees, and usually averages ... in the eighties and the low nineties. HISTORY AND CULTURE 1. For one thousand years, Vietnam was part of China. Chinese officials administered the territory and attempted to assimilate the Vietnam popul...

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... . South Vietnam was aided by a coalition of forces including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea. North Vietnam was aided by Russia and China, but not with soldiers but with finances, supplies and weaponry. On August 4, 1964, the captain of the U.S.S. Maddox, which was stationed outside of South ... Errington & McKercher 175). However, many gains were made under the Nixon regime. One important achievement was that talks he had with China and Russia weakened their public support of North Vietnam. "Nixon was able to convince them that North Vietnam was clearly the lo...

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... rule. As Nguyen the Patriot he was a founding member of the French Communist party and often engaged in radical activities. He attended training sessions in Moscow and was sent to China in 1924. It was here that he participated in the organization of a revolutionary movement among Vietnamese exiles. . When authorities began cracking down on Communist activities he was forced to leave ... China. He remained away from China until 1930 when he returned to found the Indochinese Communist party. He stayed here in China for a year until he was arrested by British police and jailed until 1933....

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... the Iraq War and in Afghanistan in the 21st century. The VC massively demoralised the US by doing what they did. The USA had a poor choice of tactics. You cannot discount public opinion and congressional support however, they were also influential....

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... government in the South under Ngo Dinh Diem. The Vietnam War became a proxy between the United States, the Soviet Union and communist China. Despite their rivalry for leadership of the communist bloc of nations, the Soviet Union and China collaborated to support North Vietnam's effort to destroy South Vietnam. Ho used guerilla warfare in South Vietnam, piloted by Viet Cong divisions, with ... sparked Afghan resistance, initially involved an estimated 30,000 troops, a force that ultimately grew to 100,000. The 7 major mujahidin guerrilla groups were supported by aid from the United State...

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... was a poor area and was cut off from the agricultural benefit of South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh was forced to ask assistance from major Communist allies - the Soviet Union and China. Both aided North Vietnam before and during the war. The North Vietnamese invaded South Vietnam. They wanted to use military tactics to force unification. The United States did not allow ... and ultimately into a limited international conflict. The United States and some 40 other countries supported South Vietnam by supplying troops and munitions, and the USSR and the People's Republic of China furnished munitio...

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... people get surprised when they read of his accomplishments because so much focus of his career is put on the Watergate scandal. While he was in office Nixon worked with China and the Soviet Union to increase stability and decrease tensions between the "super powers". He held summit meetings with the Soviets which yielded a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. He ... continued to travel extensively. He traveled all over the United States and went to places such as Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Mideast. In 1985 he met with leaders in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, ...

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