The Failure Of Communism In Vietnam

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The long history of French colonization in Vietnam came to an end during the final battle of the First Indochina War in 1954. After a three-month long battle at Dien Bien Phu, the Communist Vietminh emerged victoriously. However, the fighting in Vietnam was far from over and the stage was set for the Second Indochina War, better known as the Vietnam War. The United States had already maintained a vested interest in the region for over a decade providing financial support to France but the loss of Dien Bien Phu and subsequent exit of French military forces left America with a difficult decision to make regarding its position; America could either stand aside and let one of the major Communist powers swoop in and take over the country or step up and intervene in Vietnamese internal affairs to stave off Communist ideology …show more content…
America’s fateful decision to interject its Western ideologies on the Vietnamese people was the beginning of a long drawn out military action that would force the United States to come face to face with the reality that a major world power could be brought to its knees by what they believed to be an inferior force. For decades to come, the American war effort would be scrutinized to determine what political and military lessons should have been learned from the defeat of the French by Vietminh forces that could have potentially helped the United States to claim victory. There were many lessons America could have learned from the First Indochina War, especially from the battle of Dien Bien Phu. To begin with, America was an unwelcome foreign invader into a hostile territory. France had colonized Vietnam since 1887, but the

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