Had North Vietnam succeeded in converting Vietnam into a Communist country, it could become very powerful and go on to "persuade" other countries to become Communist. ... North Vietnam was a Communist country. The man who had proclaimed Vietnam independent, Ho Chi Minh, was a Communist. ... He founded the Indochina Communist Party and the Viet Minh. ... It began as a determined attempt by Communist guerrillas (the so-called Vietcong) in the South, backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. ...

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The fear was because; in a communist system there is no private ownership of business or property. ... In 1917, the monarchy was overthrown and the world's first communist government was formed. ... At the occurrence of World War II, communists were instructed to oppose the war effort. ... By 1945, the Communist Party changed its name to the Communist party of Australia (CPA) and the Australian members of it had risen to over 40 000. ... After the war Vietnam became a communist country and was ruled by the Vietnam Communist Party. ...

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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 By the end of World War II, most had withdrawn, though some were still communist party members.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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Following the Ho's founding of the Indochinese Communist Party, which held both nationalist and communist motives, Ho Chi Minh was often criticized by the ICP for not being radical enough for the movement. ... Ho then re-established contact with the ICP leaders, and later helped found the Viet Minh group which was based both on nationalist and communist principles. ... The communist ideology was less broad, and focused more towards a social revolution in which revolt would be primarily led by peasants and the workers. The communist ideology also sought after an elimination of class inequa...

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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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"What do the Chinese Communists want? ... It is because of China's strive to be a hegemony in the world and because of the clashing of the capitalist vs. communist ideologies in their foreign policies, that caused hostility between the liberal-capitalist USA and the communist China through 1949 to 1991. ... From 1949 China was ruled by communist dictator Mao Zedong. ... In contrast the communist leadership appeared purposeful and resolute; its followers were loyal and dedicated. ... It can be seen through the Chinese foreign policy, written in the times when Mao Zedong was the leader ...

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When living in France, Ho converted to communism and became one of the founders of the French Communist Party. ... Some may say Ho Chi Minh cannot be a nationalist because he started a French Communist Party, but I disagree. Even after the creation of the French Communist Party, Ho Chi Minh went back and joined an exiled Vietnamese nationalist group. ... Ho being a nationalist did not mean he was not a communist, I just see him as more of a nationalist than a communist. ... Even in his communist actions, his overall intention was for the freedom of Vietnam, like the communist movement he creat...

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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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Released in 1949, the Red Menace portrayed the daily tasks of the small, but brutal communist party living in the United States. ... Jones begins going to communist protests and attending informative classes about the party. ... The paper the following day reads, Anthony Reachi killed because he was a communist (RM, Springsteen 1949)! ... HUAC mainly forced on exposing communist that worked inside the federal government or even in the Hollywood film industry. ... In the Red Scare, Molly OFlaherty was a young women who just recently left home and joined the communist party. ...

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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 United States supported an anti-communistic regime called the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) in its fight against communist take-over (Raskin& Fall 56). ... Unfortunately it would not be an easy win for the United States because North Vietnam received outside assistance from the Communistic powers of the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China. ... Leaving communistic China un-attacked helped insure the survival of South Vietnam. ... In North Vietnams case the Vietnamese communists, or Vietcong, were the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF). ... The hardest an...

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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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