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Originally Posted by JCricket
as long as they were making money on it.
Finished it for you. And yeah, that is the problem with most wars these days.
I did some quick reading. Originally it was indo-china, a French colony. The Germans capturing France in WWII "destabilized" the French colony. This brought in the Japanese as well. Further, it allowed the colonies a little freedom, due to lack of political control by the French.
This is a highly paraphrased condensed version of what I read. I think I am fairly close though.
During this time, the countries of Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand became countries. The Vietnamese, in the north had declared there independence and the Soviet Union and China recognized them. This was a communist government. However, I also read it was brutal. Murdering something like 200,000 people for being "land owners". The combination of the red scare and these factors is what led Eisenhower and then ultimately the people of the US to support the south.
Does this sound correct?
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Dulles was the power house not Eisenhower. He was determine to go in whether communists were benign or brutal. He was a firm believer in the
Domino Theory.
Here is a short speech by Dulles at the fall of Dien Bien Phu.
It is indicative of his determination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1DMMZzYADc