Anti communism was your centrepiece of us foreign plan from 1941 but by the 1970s it absolutely was less significant, and indochina was as well. By 1954 the us was paying many of these of the costs of the the french language war up against the vite communsits. it found communism as being a global monolith, the vietnamese not as nationalists but as tools of the sino-soviet bloc. Vietnam was not crucial in itself yet a place to 'draw the line', after china was lost, or else like pelerine all seasia would go communist, and asia would choose china since an ally. and so said the united states president, the united states could not see that nationalism and cluss struggle brought communism to electric power in poor nations in 1954, the west succeeded in making laos and cambodia non0communist point out at geneva, and pursuing british advice " temporaily" divided VN. Even this was not acceptable for the us. They put into the southern region Diem, a fervant anti-communist, who declined the decided 1956 concentration re-election. By 1959 with us funding and weapons diem had busted or slain 90% of communist cadre in SVN. At this time the nvn management sanctioned a resoultion in SVN. The employment depicted this kind of as NVN's " aggression" by communists As the new NLF (set up dec 1960) won significant achievement, succesive presidents especialy JFK and LBJ escalated, fighting that eliminate in VN would envourage " communist aggresion" world-wide. After 1964, the soviet-us cold conflict intensified since kruschev (who sought " peaveul coexistance" ) was replaced by simply Brezhnev since soviet leader. In the 1960's also china became even more militant. Since the VN war boomed to epic proportions, the USSR and Cina gave NVN and the NLF more aid and hands, so that the VN war became a proxy war b/w the USA as well as the communist power. This might have been averted. In 1963 JFK decided that he would decrease US advisors in SVN from 12, 000 to under one thousand as the SVN military services was unwilling to combat, because it was not americas warfare to combat; but he also sanctioned the undoing of diem who was no effective anti-communist leader, and who...
