... . Nation building was failing the South, and, in 1960, communist cadres created the National Liberation Front (NLG) or Vietcong as its enemies called it, to challenge the Diem regime. President John F. Kennedy concurred with his predecessor's domino theory and also believed that the credibility of U.S. anticommunist commitments around the world was imperiled in 1961. Consequently, by 1963 he had tripled American ... he increased the bombing; the tonnage dropped after 1969 exceeded the already prodigious levels reached by Johnson. Nixon expanded air and ground operations into Cambodia and...

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... thousands refused to go home and were either kept in the south or sent to Taiwan. Sigmund Rhee then ordered the release of 24,000 North Korean Prisoners to help block the upcoming ceasefire. Matters of state had changed however. President Eisenhower had decided to end the war but promised Rhee continued U.S. support to get his agreement that the ROK wouldn ... . (Little, Brown and Company) Clay Blair 1987. The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953, 2nd ed. (Doubleday) James L. Stokebury 1988. A Short History of The Korean War, 1st ed. (Quill) John Tolan 1991. In Mortal Combat: Korea,...

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