... the time realised that in order to survive a communist onslaught, we would have to put our trust in "great and powerful friends" Vietnam had been a French colony since 1858, but when they were driven out during World War II, Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh, a nationalist group with communist ideals formed a government in ... to relinquish their colony, and so they went to war with the Vietminh forces that were supported by communist China. When the French were crushed at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, they were forced into peace negotiations. At a conference held in Geneva, it ... was decided that ...

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... against the nationalist movement in Vietnam, the Americans saw an imminent opportunity to possibly apply their own colonial model there, but "called upon the French or the Chinese for the raw intelligence information that informed their reports to Washington," (Bradley 94). Through these sources, the Americans could reaffirm what they had already wanted to believe ... about the Vietnamese people – that they were an "inferior and imitative little China [with] backwards political development...[lacking] traditions of indigenous governance," with French rule being an insult to that i...

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... so difficult to avoid a conflict. Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. The Soviets ... justify their expansionism in accordance with their Marxist theory which advocated the need to spread revolution throughout the world. On the other hand, some other revisionist historians point at the US foreign policy as the culprit of the origins ... of the 1950s. It can also be argued, however, th...

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... to inner conflict and desire for the new nations to break free from the Diets, from Russians' rule" (www.worldhistoryhub.com book review, Sunny, the Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Union). The important points are Why did USSR had collapsed and USA did not if it is mostly related with nationalism? Which areas were ... relations (trade etc.) with the Western Europe capitalist countries. Nationalism had been a great problem for the humanity for thousands of years. Nationalist movements have gained much strength especially after the French Revolu...

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