The issue of foreign dominance took different forms than in Vietnam.9 Conflict between Vietnam and Cambodia had some great power overtones. ... The United States supported a military coup in Cambodia that eventually ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Pol Pot took over. ... Laos has gotten foreign aid from the United States as well as England. One way they've gotten aid is in the form of medicine, training, and military support. ... The Department of State realized that they couldn't leave Cambodia without the protection of the United States because of the influence from the Interna...

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This victory catalysed the realisation that military victory over the Viet Minh would not come easily, nor would it come cheap, as French Commander, Henri Navarre, states; "it struck me immediately that there was no possibility of winning the war in Indochina". ... This outcome can be seen as modest on Vietnams behalf due to the pressure applied from their Chinese and Russian allies to avoid American confrontation and remain a constructive approach to limit American involvement and maintain Vietnamese foreign credibility. ... Increasing military aid to South Vietnam and sending the ...

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As North Vietnamese Communists began to threaten South Vietnam, the United States initiated a military counter to Asian communist aggression. ... As the weeks went by, however, Caputo and his men encountered increasing enemy hostility and realized that they were involved in a type of guerilla warfare that was foreign to them and which they misunderstood. ... The staff, on the other hand, seemed to be nothing more than a military organization, a soulless, bloodless thing," Caputo later wrote. ... While standing at the edge of a runway waiting to board his flight home, he gazed at the new milita...

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However, in Articles 16,17,18, and 19 of the Geneva agreement, remilitarization was barred; "there were to be no troop reinforcements, no augmentation of weapons, no military bases, and no foreign military alliances on the part of the administration of either zone " (Young 41). ... It showed that the Diem regime was not able to militarily stop the NLF even if they had an advantage. ... Aside from the conflicts from Diem's policies on land reforms and military failures, religion was another major controversy during his regime. ... After major political conflicts and military failures, the ...

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The United States provided military equipment, but the French were defeated in 1954. ... 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. ... The U.S. provided military advisors. ...

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NEW ZEALANDS SEARCH FOR SECURITY: 1945 - 1972 In the period between 1945 and 1954 New Zealand's Foreign affairs were at a turning point. ... New Zealand has never sent assistance under the ANZUS agreement, but Australia, New Zealand and the United States have held military manoeuvres in preparation of any attack. ...

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The foreign policy of the United States during the Cold War had support due to the direct conflict of goals of the U.S. and how the spread of communism could prove dangerous for Americans. ... Because of the threat, Congress agreed to provide U.S. aid and military equipment to Greece which helped the Greek government defeat the communist rebels. ...

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From 1968 to 1973, he was a foreign correspondent for the Tribune and covered the fall of Saigon, served in Italy, the Soviet Union and the Middle East. ... His brigade was deployed to Da Nang and they were supposed to set the perimeter for an airstrip that would ensure the arrival and departure of military troops and goods. ...

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It was also the first foreign war in which U.S. combat forces failed to achieve their goals. ... By December 31st, 1962, 11,300 U.S. military personnel were in Vietnam; South Vietnam Armed Forces strength was at 243,000 troops. ... One and a half million Vietnamese fled Vietnam between 1975 and the early 1990's. 2,700,000 U.S. military personnel were involved in the war and battles. ...

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The Cold War also led America into adapting a doctrine called the containment doctrine where the foreign policy transformed into trying to oppose the Soviets militarily and diplomatically all around the world. ... The US wanted to prevent Vietnam from turning into a communist nation so in 1964 they intervened militarily in the small Asia country even though they didn't have suppose of the American people. ...

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For years, Ho Chi Minh tried to get the U.S to help him but the U.S stood strong with its Cold War foreign policy of containment, which meant preventing the spread of Communism. Ho Chi Minh tried to give the U.S military intelligence on Japan but the U.S still denied him. ... Sherman was nineteen years old when he was drafted into the military. ...

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The Vietnam War was the most controversial war in U.S. history. Also called the Indochina War, it was said to have been started in 1957 when communist rebels of North Vietnam launched an attack on The South. The country was divided because of the communistic views of the North. Because the North was...

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