... Minh's Vietminh, a nationalist group with communist ideals formed a government in Hanoi, situated in the northern region of Vietnam. The French were unwilling 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 ... indebted to assist us. It was also our way of ensuring their presence in the region by supporting them so they would not lose interest or fervor concerning the security of the region. At ...

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... its capabilities in foreign affairs. Once they had begun funding the French struggle 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 ... of their efforts to begin with. The efforts of the Vietnamese people against the United States demonstrated how misguided America...

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... 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 Cold War, culminating in the McCarthy witch-hunts of the 1950s. It can also be argued, ... however, that 'expansionism' and self interest were the reasons why the Cold War started. French historian Alexis de ... Tocqueville supports this idea and, sort of propheticall...

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... systems and have more 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 Revolution in 1789. It had caused many empires to collapse (Austria-Hungry Empire, Ottoman Empire etc.) throughout the history. These collapses had changed the economical, political and all kinds of conditions focused ... on the area and in all over the world. It is clear that the wrong nationalist policies are the main reason of the collapse of ...

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