... to the communist side completely. 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....

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... customs, traditions, beliefs, and way of life of their fellow foreign people. They also suggested a sense of urgency and need for Americans to study basic sources of information such as Mao Zedong's writings and Communist ideas, so that they could understand a lot more behind the ideologies of war, how it is manipulated in that certain country, and what can be done to ... ...

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