In 1986, the government implemented reforms and the economy was gradually transformed into a more open, market-oriented system. ... Government revenues were low, the fiscal deficit was large and persistent, and some areas were on the verge of famine. ... Competition with China is also a challenge for Vietnam. China as a member of the WTO and a rapidly growing economy is expected to attract an increasing amount of FDI, in 2000 FDI inflow into China reached US$ 47 billion while the FDI inflow into ASEAN 10 was US$ 12.9 billion; in 2002 FDI in China could amount US$ 50 billion. ... On the ot...

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This humiliating defeat toppled the French government, and it was becoming increasing difficult to maintain colonial possession over Vietnam. ... Bao Dai and loyalist Vietnamese Francophiles created an alternative government in these regions, intensifying debate concerning Vietnam's political future. ... Soon after peasant revolts, the government was required to change its policy to one of "rectification" where officials were demoted. ... By 1958 insurgents of the South began a politically motivated terror campaign, kidnapping and murdering government officials. ... In turn it...

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In January 1946, Britain agreed to remove her troops and later that year, China left Vietnam in exchange for a promise from France that she would give up her rights to territory in China. ... The situation improved in 1949 after Mao Zedong and his communist army defeated Chaing Kai-Shek in China. ... When it became clear that France was becoming involved in a long-drawn out war, the French government tried to negotiate a deal with the Vietminh. They offered to help set-up a national government and promised they would eventually grant Vietnam its independence. ... China and the Sov...

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(Tonkin Annam and Cochin China were regions in the North, Central and South Vietnam. ... The Chinese had no sympathy for the French and when they withdrew, they left Ho's government in place. ... The French forced the Viet Minh into the country areas and first Indo-Chinese war had begun. ... By the end of 1949, the situation had radically changed with the success of the Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army (PLA) against the Nationalist Chinese. ... In the South, "Cochin China", the communist-led forces were too weak, lacking in arms and effective leadership, to prevail against ...

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However, while Ho Chi Minh established a good relationship with the Chinese. ... The US government committed to a policy of alliance with France, and in the long run, this policy precluded friendship with the DRV and the entire country of Vietnam. ... The Americans gave Bao Dai an over provisional amount of money; because, he had similarities to the U.S. government would have been able to do the same as Ho Chi Minh. ... That it was caused the American government to turn there backs to the Vietnamese. ... So when they had to fight the Americans, Ho Chi Minh was recognized by china and R...

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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. ... Subsequent charges that Truman had "lost" China and had settled for a stalemate in Korea caused succeeding presidents to fear the domestic political consequences if they "lost" Vietnam. ... But the Diem government still failed to show economic or political progress. ... A larger in Vietnam also raised the risk of a military clash with China. ... Some postmortems singled out media criticism of ...

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Also, many other countries were involved in their decolonization process like Japan, the United States and at times China. ... The British government allowed some limited self-government in Burma by the 1930s. ... The British recruited most of their officers and government officials from these ethnic tribes. ... At first, he went to China and sought the help of nationalist government of the Kuomintang. ... Once in Japan, the government offered him to supply arms and necessary finance. ...

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Despite this support, America's Korean campaign was unsuccessful, this was to some degree the fault of President Truman, who had not believed that the Chinese government would be prepared to intervene and he also underestimated the military power of China. Therefore, not wanting to engage in an all-out war with China and the Soviet Union, which would most likely have led to the Third world war, Truman was forced to negotiate, and thus the Korean War ended in stalemate on July 1953 after long negotiations for peace a cease-fire was finally signed. ... And despite governmental attempts to...

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This war took place because the Vietnams couldn't agree on one government so they broke up into two major parts, North and the South. North Vietnam wanted to have Communism for a government under the influence of Ho Chi Minh, and the South wanted to have democracy, under the influence of the French rule. ... They thought this because the Northern Vietnam was backed by China and Russia. ... Either to help South Vietnam, which was highly impossible because South Vietnam had only consisted of armies with low morale, and all the corrupted leaders and officials, or to fight against communism, ...

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The people and governments of the French, U.S., Vietnam all had different motives for their involvement in the Vietnam War in the years between 1945 and 1975. ... Within days, Emperor Bao Dai abdicated, promising to support the new government as a private citizen. ... The country was then divided along the 17th parallel of latitude, with the south being supported by the United States, and the northern communist lead by Ho Chi Minh was allied by Russia and China. ... Historian Buttinger stated that, "Ho Chi Minh over the years had succeeded in creating for his country as an anti-French, ant...

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We must allow a communist influence in the government instead of attempting to repress a genuinely nationalist revolution, which is the case in Vietnam. ... Ho Chi Minh was forced to ask assistance from major Communist allies - the Soviet Union and China. ... The United States and some 40 other countries supported South Vietnam by supplying troops and munitions, and the USSR and the People's Republic of China furnished munitions to North Vietnam and the Vietcong. ... Neither the U.S. nor the Saigon government agreed to the Geneva accords, but the U.S. announced it would do nothing to da...

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Before World War II Vietnam was part of the French Empire and after the war were given control of the Southern Vietnam while the Chinese were given the Northern Vietnam. The Chinese pulled out from North Vietnam and the French now wanted to take the North Vietnam and quickly were defeated in 1946. ... While democracy is used in Australia and means the population is used to elect a government and representatives. Communist forces in The Vietnam War were: North Vietnam, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, Soviet Union, China and North Korea. ...

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After World War II and The Korean Conflict, the last thing U.S. citizens wanted was for the government to send troops into Vietnam. ... North Vietnam was aided by Russia and China, but not with soldiers but with finances, supplies and weaponry. ... "The American government initially believed that this conflict would not last more than two years" (Edwards 160). ... The American government controlled South Vietnam, and dictated what its governments steps should be. ... The growing anti-war movement alarmed the U.S. government, and eventually dictated the way the government ran the war. ...

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Nixon imagined a future in which more pleasant relations among the major powers "the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Western Europe, and Japan "would allow for ventures profitable to all. ... To do so would not only be damaging to his image, but would encourage further aggression by the Soviets and the Chinese. ... Nixon hoped that improved relations with the Chinese and the Soviets would spur a quick exit from Vietnam the summits did little to push the war towards its end. The U.S. entered the talks in 1969 seeking mutual withdrawal and no coalition government [ ] bef...

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The Peoples Republic of China and the USSR promoted the communist North Vietnam while the US supported South Vietnam. ... The American people called for the government to take greater control of the economy in order to prevent similar occurrences to that of the Great Depression. ... He also wanted to create social welfare systems that allowed the government to collect taxes in order to pay for improvements to society. ... Many conservatives disagreed with this system due to their ideals on taxes and government control of the economy. ...

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The Johnson administration kept tight control at first because they feared that if they beat up the NVA to bad then China and the Soviet Union might step in as defenders of communism. ... Bombing was prohibited within 25 miles of the Chinese border, within 10 miles of Hanoi and within 4 miles of Haiphong So, by placing the capital, Haiphong and surrounding areas off limits, the U.S. ... The North Vietnamese government claimed to have dug over 30,000 miles of tunnels under the ground. ...

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Coming out of World War II, the government of the United States fostered an inflated view of 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 the Vietnamese people – that they were an "i...

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"Australians were supportive of Menzies Governments' decision to send troops to Vietnam in support of President Diem's Resistance of Ho Chi Ming. ... Views of Save Our Sons, the Catholic Church and Menzies Government will be focused on in the text. ... This wasn't a big issue until 1966 when the government announced they would be sending the conscripts overseas to fight in the Vietnam War. ... This will be decided between the colossi of the United States and China, with Japan and Indonesia exerting some influence on the ultimate result". ... In conclusion, the view of ...

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(p. 184) The majority of people in Vietnam work in agriculture and the southerners were very reluctant to give up their land to the collectivization and redistribution that the government was trying to implement. ... (Neher, p.188) This does not give people much faith in their government. Currently, the situation has improved, but mainly because of the steps the government has taken away from its Communist roots. They are slowly moving towards establishing relations not only with their other Southeast Asian neighbors by joining the ASEAN, but also have worked on their relations with Ch...

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From the movie I learned about the emotions that America was feeling and how the American government was reacting to the situation. ... The Chinese were supplying the North with ammo and weapons for the already abundant men well the south had only the ignorant American shoulder to lean on. ... I thing the thing that hurt the Vietnam vets the most was not only did they feel that they were fighting a war that would kill many through out the war and after due to the governments negligence many more would be victims. ... Hopeful due to films and books the veterans of Vietnam will be seen as brave ...

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He proved time and time again that his tactical and governmental strength was minimal, if not non-existent. ... From these contacts sprang many of his latter commanding officers and government officials (Tucker 81). ... After achieving this position Diem returned to Sai Gon and established a new government, formed to " embrace all of Vietnam- (Tucker 82). ... Many of the nationalist parties opposed him for his absence during the Indo-China Wars, they saw Diem as a sellout for leaving his country during times of war. ... Nhu was given undue control over the police force, ARVN, and key gov...

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China and the Soviet Union are communist, and now Vietnam wants to be communist. ... Despite this government officials refuse peace. ... I believe that the government underestimated the resolve of the Viet Cong and Northern Vietnamese. ...

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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. The United States became involved in Vietnam because it believed that if all of the country fell under a communist government, communism would spread throughout Southeast Asia and beyond. ... (Bender, 14) The U.S. government, therefore, supported the South Vietnamese government. In 1962, the United States sent 4000 troops to ...

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At the end of the Second World War, France lied in ruins and Vietnam was left with no governmental occupation after the surrender of the Japanese. ... Ho and the Viet Minh realised that a peaceful approach to achieving their goal was not possible, as they had been rejected by the democratic super powers (USA and Allies), Ho and the Viet Minh followed communist ways and went to seek assistance from Russia and China. ... With the supplies and tactics provided by China, the Viet Minh began their resistance movement by uses of guerrilla warfare. ...

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We Were Soldiers Once and Young was co-authored by Lt. General Harold G Moore and Joseph L Galloway. Lt General Moore was in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Calvary division during the November 1965 battle, which took place in the Ia Drang valley in Vietnam. Joseph L Galloway was a reporter that a...

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