... -American government. America just favored Vietnam's independence and supported South Vietnam, surprising Ho Chi Minh [leader of the North] ("Vietnam War-). The United States aid to France and later non-communist South Vietnam was based on a policy of President Harry S. Truman. He had declared that the U.S. must help any nation threatened by Communists (Pike 373). President Dwight D. Eisenhower increased the level ... said that, if any communists succeeded in controlling Vietnam, they would progressively dominate all of Southeast Asia, the United States worst fear. That is why U.S. got i...

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... and for New Zealand's decision to get involved, was the spread of communism. In South East Asia, there was a rivalry between communist and anti-communist groups for control of the independence movement. If the US failed in its efforts to eliminate communist rule in Vietnam, it was feared that communism would become widespread and infiltrate into the "free world". This was a grave concern ... for New Zealand, especially as it was located so close to Asia. New Zealand had a strong anti-Communist stance and saw the discord in Vietnam as a serious threat to its own nation. Prime Minister Ho...

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... of liberalism in Guatemala, a country with a population slightly over 3 million, to be "so dangerous that the American state could not ignore it" (Document B). Americans were so fearful of a communist foothold in Latin America that a statement with echoes of the Monroe Doctrine was made asserting that any spread of communism in the Americas was a direct threat to the sovereignty and ... : "RESULT: A growing question whether a policy of receiving the first blow may be the best one". Given the situation of the Cold War it could be inferred that the communist opposition in Moscow would attr...

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... opposition to the war by civilians and the death of over 50,000 American soldiers. In 1946, the U.S. began providing economic aid to the French in their war against the communist Vietminh. In 1950, the Military Assistance Advisory Group was sent to Vietnam to give military aid to the French. (Dougan 26) Eventually (1954) the French were forced to pull out ... by the American and South Vietnamese forces. In a few places, like the city of Hue, the North Vietnamese forces held the city for three weeks before being overcome. (Dougan 130) Communist casualties during the Tet Offensive were as...

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... Vietnam's armed forces. Nixon was most concerned with the need to protect the lives of the American troops. So in April of 1970, he approved a joint US-Vietnamese attack on Communist sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia. It took two months and huge quantities of supplies were taken, supposedly assuring that the Communists would not mount an offensive in Vietnam. However, people back ... in the United States saw this as expansion of the war. This controversy was settled in 1973 when it was found out that the United States secretly bombed Communist targets in Cambodia in 1969 and again in 1970...

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... that of China. The new China Policy was announced. Nixon and Henry Kssinger announced to reopen the door in China in hopes or creating and ally of the one time Communist threat, while bringing China's trade and cultural expansion back into 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 days of talks with Mao Tse-tung, Chinese -American relations were reopened after twenty years. Both countries agreed to not seek domina...

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... in ambushes not traditional combat. Out of this new understanding Kennedy created the Special Forces as a countermeasure. In the summer of 1963 the war escalated to include widespread bombing of communist forces. By the time of Kennedy's death America would have 16,000 "advisors" in the country. Kennedy was assassinated in Nov. of 1963. The following day his successor Lyndon Johnson ... the help of Henry Kissinger, in his capacity as the President's national security adviser they were able to restore a three-way balance of powers between the US and the two communist powers - the Soviet ...

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... hit all over the U.s. hitting its peek with the Auto industry. In the early 1970's President Nixon visited Russia. He was the first U.S. president to visit Russia since it became communist. While in Russia president Nixon signed the Salt I treaty, which showed a cooling down of tensions between the U.S. and Russia. Another big change during this time was the replacing of Taiwan ... in the U.S. with communist china. . Also during this time the U.S. continued to support Israel even though this annoyed the OPEC nations and was causing a big crisis on the U.S. home front. The American cultu...

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... . The U.S. was able to reduce its own casualties and was unwilling to continue unchecked support. The loss of U.S ability and willingness to defend South Vietnam turned into a rout by the Communist forces. When South Vietnam failed to defend itself the war was truly over. ( McCoy) ARGUEMENT In 1972 the U.S.'s Henry Kissinger and Hanoi's Le Duc Tho met decide the fate of ... country began. North Vietnamese forces captured the central highlands and purged it of all ARVN defenders. The North Vietnamese were gaining ground. (McCoy) ARVN's move south to regroup and block communist forces was ...

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... not coming back "an unambiguous verification process [ ] Mr. Kissinger said that if they make it Nixon's War' he may try to win it He does not want to see communist troops in Saigon- (Berman 54). Possibly most fascinating is Ambassador Lodge's comment that the North Vietnamese would never agree to free elections. Kissinger responded that "he did not expect to ... ...

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... he would use military action. A question addressed to Nixon was also about the use of the military, but the question also asked if he would use nuclear weapons on a Chinese Communist invasion of Pacific Islands. Nixon quickly responded by stating that it would be inappropriate for a president or a presidential candidate to say what course of action and what weapons he would ... ...

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... the Truman administration's handling of China. In China, the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, which had been supported by the United States, was unable to withstand the advance of Communist forces under Mao Zedong. By the end of 1949 government troops had been overwhelmingly defeated, and Chiang led his forces into exile on Taiwan. The triumphant Mao formed the People ... ...

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... elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, a union representing Hollywood personalities that was affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. He soon found himself in the middle of the attempted communist takeover of the movie industry. He testified before Congress as a friendly witness, where he gave a powerful defense of the strength of democracy. Slowly, his political views began to shift from ... ...

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... McCarthyism. McCarthyism is just a nice way to say witch-hunt. Pretty much, if you were a true American, you would turn your neighbor in immediately if you suspected any sort of communist involvement. This ran on for quite some time and led to some pretty risky situations. You were never the same after being convicted of spying against the U.S. Perhaps the greatest ... ...

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... named Helen Douglas. After another bitterly fought campaign Nixon linked her voting record with that of the American-Labor-Party congressman from New York, who was widely regarded as pro-Communist. Nixon won the election by 680,000 votes. In 1952, Nixon was selected to be Dwight Eisenhower's vice presidential- running mate, but shortly after his nomination Nixon was suspected of ... ...

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... with the Soviet Union and the opening relations with China."" (p.97).The policy of détente followed by Nixon eased the tension with the Soviet Union. Nixon repudiated his anti-Communist past and became the first US president to visit the Soviet Union when he traveled to Moscow in May of 1972. He sought peace with the opposing super-power and ... ...

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... had been started during the Kennedy Administration (Encarta 2001, "Johnson, Lyndon Baines".) Johnson encountered one of his biggest obstacles in 1959 when the Vietnam War had begun as a result of Communist-led nationalists rising to opposition to the government in South Vietnam (Encarta 2001, "Johnson, Lyndon Baines".) Before long, the communists formed their own system of government that was organized into ... ...

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... energies on the struggle against international communism. The liberalists were highly concerned with overcoming the potential threat of communism. A leading Liberal democrat stated that "...if Americans did not fight the communist in Asia, they would have to fight them in Wichita..." In order to prove his potential as a prominent president Lyndon B. Johnson focused on true national issues including aid to education ... ...

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... . Richard Nixon Richard Milhouse Nixon, 37th president of the United States, was born January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon was one of the most controversial politicians. He used the communist scare of the late forties and early fifties to catapult his career, but as president he eased tension with the Soviet Union and opened relations with Red China. He was ... ...

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... commander of the American occupation forces in western Germany. After the war, the Soviets had occupied not only East Germany but also several other countries in Eastern Europe. They imposed Communist governments on these nations and appeared to be threatening Western Europe. As a response, the United States, Canada, and ten European nations created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as a defense ... ...

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