Anti communism was the centrepiece of us foreign policy from 1941 but by the 1970s it was less important, and indochina was also.
By 1954 the us was paying 80% of the costs of the french war against the vite communsits. it saw communism as a global monolith, the vietnamese not as nationalists but as tools of the sino-soviet bloc. Vietnam was not important in itself but a place to 'draw the line', after china had been lost, otherwise like dominoes all seasia would go communist, and japan would turn to china as an ally. so said the us president, the us could not see that nationalism and cluss struggle brought communism to power in poor nations
in 1954, the west succeeded in making laos and cambodia non0communist state at geneva, and following british suggestion "temporaily" divided VN. Even this was not acceptable to the us. They put into the south Diem, a fervant anti-communist, who refused the mandated 1956 unification re-election. By 1959 with us funding and weapons diem had......

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Title: Assess The Importance Of Anti-Communism In Shaping The Policies Of The Us Towards Indochina B/W 1954 + 1979
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