This is much like what goes on in communist countries. ... North Vietnam, Russia, Cuba, As well as china are all or were all communist countries. ... So communism did persevere but capitalism still watches over Vietnam but lets it remain communist. ... China, which is an active communist country, has just recently stepped into space exploration but they are not the first communists in space the Russian's were. ... The communists caused quite a bit of trouble for the capitalists. ...

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The leadership in Cambodia and Laos are both communist but have different leaders. ... When he returned to Cambodia he wanted to set-up a communist peasant farming state. ... The United States and England were anti-communist. ... The United States was against Cambodia and Laos being Communist. ... Cambodia is always looking to the United States for help against the Vietnamese Communist. ...

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During the depression, thousands of American citizens joined the communist party for economic answers. By the end of World War II, most had withdrawn, though some were still communist party members. ... This committee was supposed to prevent and stop communist acts and acts against Americans. ... People started to fear and hate everyone that was charged with having communistic ties. ... This one event shows how the nation was split on deciding the fate of convicted communists (D4). ...

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The Word communist not only became a bad word but also a serious accusation. The practice of communism became evil and all those who were believed to be communist were thought of as evil too. ... They feared infiltration by communist in places of power like political offices. ... In 1950 McCarthy made a speech accusing 205 government workers for being apart of the American communist party. ... He realizes that the future of this country could be hindered by the infiltration of communist. ...

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The Indochinese Communist Party, which was later called the Vietnamese Communist Party, began to grow stronger and by 1945 the group was ready to fight for the independence of Vietnam once more. ... After 1954 Ho Chi Minh and his Communist followers began preparing for a battle with South Vietnam to unify the country under Communist rule. ... South Vietnam became uneasy, and assistance was needed to fight against the communist North. ... From 1954 to 1960 the U.S. sent a few number of troops into Vietnam to help resist the Communist, but little was made of it. ... America did not want Rus...

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North Vietnam were communists, South Vietnam were non-communists. ... The Vietnamese Communists called the war "a war of national liberation." The communists saw the war as additional attempt by another foreign power to rule Vietnam. China and the Soviet Union, which were large communist regions gave the Vietnamese communists war material but no troops(Marc). ...

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(p. 160) The communist party gained the control that it so desperately fought for, but once they got the power they did not know how to manage it. Kolko said, "The Vietnamese Communist party became counterproductive the moment [the war] ended." ... Currently, the situation has improved, but mainly because of the steps the government has taken away from its Communist roots. ... It needs to decide whether it can survive as a communist nation or try to ally itself with the western nations and learn from a free market society. ...

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Truman, were not harsh enough on the communist party and they strongly opposed Roosevelt's New Deal. ... The anti-Communist hysteria that was taking control of the U.S. came as a result of many different factors following the end of World War Two. ... Finally, the Communist takeover in China, the USSR's detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949, and the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 all led the U.S. to not only distrust, but to fear any communist-related groups either in the USSR or the U.S. ... Actors, directors, producers, and writers were all under close watch by the government...

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During the late 1960's the U.S. got involved with the escalating threat in the country of Vietnam. Vietnam was an ocean away but people needed help and the U.S. was there to give it. Many people didn't agree with this plan of action because they thought this wasn't our war. Many people wanted the Am...

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Rivalry of Culture Fear; the strife between the capitalist and communist governments resulted in this. ... Through Government propaganda, U.S. citizens feared communists and sympathizers and any light heartedness taken towards them was considered and admission of being a communist in itself. ... The Aliens that take over bodies were the communists and promoted the belief that communists were almost inhuman. ... Only a few were actually communists, very few were actors. ... HUAC investigated the public sniffing out communists. ...

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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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When authorities began cracking down on Communist activities he was forced to leave China. He remained away from China until 1930 when he returned to found the Indochinese Communist party. ... In 1938 he served as an advisor to the Chinese Communist armed forces. ... Under Ho Chi Minh's presidency the DRV focused its efforts on creating a communist society in North Vietnam. ... In his honor, Saigon was named Ho Chi Minh City, following the Communist conquest of the South. ...

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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 forces in The Vietnam War were: North Vietnam, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, Soviet Union, China and North Korea. Anti-Communist forces were: South Vietnam, United States, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Khmer Republic and the Kingdom of Laos. ... This meant it was extremely hard to fight the communist forces. ... In 1975 the war ended at the Fall of Saigon with the North Vietnamese and communists winning the war. This resulted in Vietnam reuniting as a communist country. ...

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The Tet Offensive proved to be a political and a psychological victory for the Vietnamese communists. ... Vietnam, a former French colony, had been partitioned in 1954 into a communist-dominated regime in the north and an anti-communist regime in the south. ... North Vietnam, under the leadership of the skilled guerilla fighter Ho Chi Minh, was lending military support to a group of communist insurgents in the south who were attempting to overthrow the South Vietnamese government in order to become a unified communist nation. ... South Vietnamese were assassinated by communists for collabora...

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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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Any communist anywhere, at home or abroad, was, by definition, and enemy of the United States. ... Ho and his chief lieutenants were communists with long-standing connections to the Soviet Union. ... But expanding communist control of Eastern Europe and the triumph of the communists in China's civil was made France's war against Ho seem an anticommunist rather than a colonialist effort. ... But the communists' Tet offensive launched in January 1968 quickly extinguished the "light at the end of the tunnel". ... For the Vietnamese communists, the struggle...

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The Vietnam War became a proxy between the United States, the Soviet Union and communist China. ... Not only did the USA fail to stop South Vietnam going Communist, but the heavy bombing of Vietnam's neighbors, Laos and Cambodia in secret CIA wars, actually helped the Communist forces in those countries to win support. ... From there it became fairly easy to go from being a nationalist to being a communist. ... The Soviet-Afghan War that dragged on for a decade was between anti-Communist Muslim Afghan Mujahidin guerrillas and the communist Afghan government and Soviet forces. ... They say...

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Then in 1946 a communist educated individual called Ho Chi Minh organized the people of North Vietnam and drove out the French rulers in a war that took eight years. ... South Vietnam was afraid that a Communist leader would be chosen and the nation would be in ruins. Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam opposing the canceled election began attacks on Southern Vietnam and remaining French officials to gain co ntrol of South Vietnam. ...

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Preventing Vietnam from becoming a communist state would become imperative given the state of affairs in the post World War II era. ... At the collapse of Japan in 1945, Ho Chi Minh led Vietnamese Communists to the liberation of Vietnam. ... The theory was: Vietnam was first in a row of dominos which, if knocked over into communist hands, would lead to the communization of the rest of Southeast Asia. ... In 1953 Eisenhower requested sixty million dollars for French aid, and by 1954 the United States was sustaining eighty percent of the cost of the war between the French and the Communist ...

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At that time, Vietnam was separated into Communist-ruled North Vietnam and noncommunist South Vietnam. ... The situation improved in 1949 after Mao Zedong and his communist army defeated Chaing Kai-Shek in China. ... Communists saw the Vietnam War as an extension of their struggle with France, as another attempt by a foreign power to rule Vietnam, and as a war of national liberation. China and the Soviet Union supported the Vietnamese Communists with war materials but not troops. ... From 1957 to 1965, the war was mainly a struggle between the South Vietnamese army and Communist...

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Today there are only five countries that are currently Communist. ... China has been Communist since 1949, Cuba since 1961, Laos since 1975, North Korea since 1948, and Vietnam since 1976. ... In order to get the countries to keep from turning fully Communist like the Soviet union wanted, The United states bribed Greece and Turkey $400,000,000 in aid. ... Truman wanted to put what Churchill call an "Iron Curtain" around the USSR and which again meant each eastern European country that was near to the Soviet border had to have a loyal communist government in power with leaders who ...

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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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