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A 15 page contention that our failure to understand Indo-Chinese history can be blamed for the negative outcome of American involvement in Vietnam, China, Loas and Cambodia. By all admissions, this region has a complex and sometimes confusing history. As has been the case at more than one point in American history, we gauged our involvement in Indo-China in accordance with our own historical experience and ideology. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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to understand Indo-Chinese history can be blamed for the negative outcome of American involvement in Vietnam, China, Loas and Cambodia. By all admissions, this region has a complex and
sometimes confusing history. As has been the case at more than one point in American history, we gauged our involvement in Indo-China in accordance with our own historical experience
and ideology. We had yet to learn that that experience and ideology had little application in this culturally and politically multifaceted region.
Prior to our involvement in the Vietnam, Vietnamese history had been influenced tremendously by European interaction in the region. The Portuguese influence, in fact, initiated their influence in the
sixteenth century. The Portuguese would be followed into the country by the Dutch, French and English in the following century. By the nineteenth century she would be under
French rule. France would maintain control over her new colony until World War II when the Japanese ousted them in 1945.
Japan, of course, established Vietnam as an autonomous state ruled by Bao Dai the emperor of Annam. With the almost immediate collapse of the Bao Dai government at
the end of the war Ho Chi Minh took the reins in Vietnam. He headed up a coalition of nationalist and Communist groups which would be known as the
Viet Minh party or the League for the Independence of Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh would become what was perhaps one of the most
influential leaders in the world. He established the capital of his new republic in Hanoi and eventually gained complete independence for Vietnam. He managed to hold on to
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