French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954 after Vietnam army defeated them; French were compelled to accede to the creation of a communist north and left a non-communist entity South of that line. ... Communists accused democracy of Violating human rights, created close state economics that barely traded with capitalists countries and pursued military aggression as well. A lot of Americans even compared communist as a disease. If one nation decided to become communist the U.S policymakers expected the nations around it to become communist. ... When the Communist Part came to power in Chine, Wa...

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I am not going to be the president who saw Southeast Asia become communist."" ... The U.S. wanted the communists to leave and let South Vietnam to become its own country. ... Communist forces suffered tremendous casualties in the South. ... He issued an order to the ARVN: "If Communists come into your village, shoot them in the head." ... Congress and was twice the size of the Communist forces, but morale was collapsing. ...

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Communist expansion has been feared much by the United States, especially after the Korean War. ... American leaders felt that United States should stand as a firm power against any communist advance. ... (Dodd 810) More third world countries fall into the communist hands in 1960's that ever before. ... Pro-communist guerilla movements spread across South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. ... One of the most famous examples would be Che Guevara fighting for communist revolution in Bolivia. ...

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The United States became paranoid that Communists from the Soviet Union were bound to overthrow democracy in America. The president and his administration prosecuted anyone who seemed deceitful to their country and involved with the Communists party. ... The Hollywood Ten for example, famous actresses, actors and directors who were accused of being involved with the Communist Party and their lives were forever ruined. ... The government's paranoia of the Communist party escalated once again during the war of Vietnam. ... Many civilians belonged to a pro communist organization known as the...

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The country was divided because of the communistic views of the North. Because the North was trying to take over and make it a communist country the U.S. then got involved. ... The mounting communist assault against the south then prompted president John F. ... In 1976 it was officially reunited into one communistic nation. Over 1 million Vietnamese have fled since the Country turned communist. ...

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From 1946 ahead the Vietminh organisation set-up and was led by, communist Ho Chi Minh. ... Diem had no intention of holding the elections and said that the communists would not allow free elections in the North. ... The USA was again fighting for the wrong reasons as they thought it was non-communist against the communists. ... America's vision saw the Vietminh led by a communist. This meant America would do any thing they could to defeat the Vietminh (communists)....

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He also stated that the American people should be aware of the communists, Khrushchev in the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communists, how they were on the move and America had to counter and move towards freedom. ... Kennedy simply said that they needed to watch and be continually alert to what the communists were doing. Nixon agreed and also stated that the way to fight Communism was to attack the injustices in society that the Communists feed upon. ... Nixon said that nothing should just be turned over to the Communists because it just makes them more hungry for more land. ... He ...

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General William Westmoreland claimed that the Tet offensive was actually a victory for America and South Vietnam due to the casualties of the communists. It would take years for the communists to rebuild their strength. However, the communists seized the offensive and the American people witnessed the horrors. ...

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The French were losing and were not able to control the communist North Vietnamese from invading South Vietnam. The United States originally tried to help the French by giving them financial aid to fight off the communist attackers. ... This is who America decided was a threat that they wanted to stop before all of Indochina became communist. ... With the help of the United States, there would hope in stopping the communist North Vietnamese from taking over. ... But Diem had sound credentials as a nationalist and impeccable ones as an anti-Communist...

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As North Vietnamese Communists began to threaten South Vietnam, the United States initiated a military counter to Asian communist aggression. ... Johnson to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States in order to prevent further aggression by Communist insurgents of North Vietnam against the government of South Vietnam. ... However, as a result of the TET Offensive launched by Communist forces, American leaders were forced to begin negotiations to achieve a quick end to the war. Although the Communists were eventually driven back, America'...

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Founder of the Indochina communist party in 1930 and president from 1945 -69 of the democratic republic of Vietnam. ... It was represented by its own diplomatic staffs in all communist countries and in several neutral countries. ...

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During Nixon's campaign against Vorhees, he accused Vorhees of accepting money from a communist-dominated political action committee. This tactic, known as "red Baiting", was effective in the late 1940s and early 1950s because the American public had become frightened of the communist menace. ...

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The northern part was the Communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the southern part was the Non-Communist Republic. ... North Vietnamese started to rebel against Diem and from 1957 to 1959 he tried to stop the rebels from North Vietnam whom he named the Viet Cong, meaning Vietnamese Communist. ... The "Hawks supported the war and the fight against communists and the "Doves" were against the war and didn't think America was a risk from North Vietnam or communism. ...

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The war began as a Communist guerrilla campaign supported by North Vietnam, who sought control of South Vietnam. ... The Communists were driven out after weeks of never ending battles during which they suffered substantial losses. ... Although there was a lull in the intensity of the fighting, it did continue all throughout the spring of 1968, and into 1969, when another Tet Offensive was launched by the Communist regime. ... In both Laos and Cambodia, United States forces tried to blunt Communist offensives and to eliminate the Vietcong forces from their Cambodian sanctuaries. ...

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Obviously, the Vietnamese wanted their own country, and their long history of being a colony prompted the oppressed people to fight for their independence in the French-Indochina war. 7 Ho Chi Min, a leader of the Communist party, organized the Vietnamese independence movement, Viet Minh. Asking for support from America first, Ho Chi Min did not want to have to turn to communist support for the freedom of his people. ... It was only after Russia and China offered to help that Ho adopted communist ideals and wanted to make all of Vietnam communist. The Vietnam war started simply because Ho Chi ...

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Article#1 This article was written in the Washington Post on November 23rd, 1693, and titled, "Mystery Call Foretold Fate of President." The article imposed the fact that fifteen minuets before the President was shot an Oxnard California telephone supervisor over heard a woman whisper, "The P...

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So in April of 1970, he approved a joint US-Vietnamese attack on Communist sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia. It took two months and huge quantities of supplies were taken, supposedly assuring that the Communists would not mount an offensive in Vietnam. ... This controversy was settled in 1973 when it was found out that the United States secretly bombed Communist targets in Cambodia in 1969 and again in 1970; Even though Nixon had said that "neither the United States nor South Vietnam has moved against those enemy sanctuaries because we did not wish to violate the territory of a neutral...

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He did not have any illusion about the communist government in Vietnam or about a future communist society, but he knew that the invasion and bombing was wrong. ... He sympathized with communists because he realized what they were all about. He knew that the communists might provide land, medical care, and education more equitably to the poor. ...

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Kennedy wants to prevent South Vietnam from becoming communist. ... The rebellion was lead by 8,000 Southern born communists. 1963, American troops totaled 35,000. ... The Communist respond by taking the war to South Vietnam's cities. ... In 1970, North Vietnam receives four billion dollars from the communists. ...

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In 1946, the U.S. began providing economic aid to the French in their war against the communist Vietminh. ... (Dougan 130) Communist casualties during the Tet Offensive were as high as 40,000, mainly NVA. ... (Krepinevich 234) As the war in Vietnam progressed, President Johnson perceived the need to send more American troops and finally declared war against the communist North Vietnamese. ...

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In 1955, the United States began to help South Vietnam, and for ten years, spent billions of dollars in war equipment and economic aid. But the Vietcong, aided by North Vietnam, remained a constant threat to the government in the south. In 1965, President Johnson sent the first American combat troop...

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It was believed that the assassination was due to the communists, but instead of turning to communists, many of the American leaders turned against America, which then caused distrust in the government house.6 New York columnist James Reston said "Kennedy's assassination was a symptom of a sick political party....

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He dropped out of high school in tenth grade to study Communism and became a self-declared Communist. ... In 1963 Oswald bought several firearms via mail order and made plans to assassinate a well-known and devoted anti-Communist, General Edwin Walker. ...

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His Four Point Plan supported the UN, continued the Marshall Plan (which aided Europe financially after WWII and formed NATO), supported collective defense against communist aggression, and aided third-world countries. ...

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"Accordingly. I shall not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president." These were the words spoken to the American public by President Lyndon.B.Johnson on the 31st of March 1968 at the end of the offensive. The reason for his departure from the Presiden...

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