... the Vietminh organisation set-up and was led by, communist Ho Chi Minh. He fought seriously with the French. They fought with far more primitive weapons than the French who used modern powerful weapons supplied by the US. But since Vietminh were poor on the subject "technology" they made ... supplying the French. The French primarily fought to preserve their empire disagreed in the reason why America got involved. The USA were fighting against communism and not as war between colonialists and Nationalists. The USA were fighting for the wrong reasons. The year 1954 was a major turning p...

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... style and magnitude of world interaction within the war, is felt still today. The Vietnam Revolution could apply be summarized as a war between communism and democracy. The war stretched the boundaries of Vietnam and included a number of countries that helped in some form to further benefited their ... system. No revolution since has encountered such a large number of casualties as The Vietnam Revolution did. Although, in the end, communism reigned in Vietnam, the effect the war had on the world was the beginning of the end of the dominance of communist leadership in ... from North Vietn...

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... the poetry, architecture and painting retained themes distinctive to Southeast Asia. 3. To the Chinese, the absorption of the Red River Delta represented the expansion of a superior civilization over people of a primitive culture, a concept of "manifest destiny- not unlike the westward expansion of the United States in the nineteenth century. And there was no doubt that one thousand years of Chinese rule ... to become involved. However the victory of the communists in the Chinese Civil War convinced many officials that the Vietminh must be stopped in order to stop the spread of communis...

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