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A 10 page paper discussing policies of containment of communism relating to South Vietnam. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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immediately after the end of World War II influenced and marked the origins of American involvement in Vietnam. The application of those policies as refined through the 1950s and
1960s ultimately led to one of the most controversial military actions ever undertaken by the American government. I. The Truman Administration When Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1945, Vice
President Harry S. Truman became President. Shortly after his ascendancy to President, World War II ended in Europe with the surrender of Germany in May of 1945. During World
War II, the United States, various European countries and Russia allied to fight the threat of Nazism, but there was frequently disagreement between the United States and Russia on how
to achieve victory. After the War ended, Russia, the United States, and Britain were the three powers shaping world events, although there were serious differences in ideologies of the
three countries (Saville, 1996, PG). The British had been in the war with Germany much earlier than the United States, and as a result, the financial strain of the War
left Great Britain in a state of near-bankruptcy. Although there were ideological disagreements between the two powers, an alliance resulted wherein they would receive financial support from America, and
in return, Britain would provide advice from its vast knowledge and experience as a world power to foreign policy-makers of the United States, the new world "superpower" (Saville, 1996, PG).
After elections in 1945 in Great Britain, the Labour Party took over the government in Britain. The new foreign secretary was Ernest Bevin, who had been minister of labor
during the War. Bevin was strongly in favor of working closely with the United States and vigorously opposed Communism and the Soviet Union (Saville, 1996, PG). In those
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