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A 5 page research paper on U.S. involvement in Vietnam which explores the events leading up to the Geneva Conference which ended a French presence in Vietnam, partitioned the country at the 17th parallel, and temporarily halted hostilities for two years. The writer demonstrates how Congress was instrumental in preventing a U.S. unilateral intervention in 1954. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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choose 1945 and date involvement from when Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnamese independence and "members of the American military delegation in Hanoi saluted the new republic" (Drew; Snow 54). Still,
others date U.S. involvement from when the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a predecessor of the CIA, aided Ho Chi Minhs forces in subverting Japanese occupation of Vietnam during
World War II (Drew; Snow). One can also make an argument for U.S. involvement beginning when Ho Chi Minh turned President Franklin D. Roosevelt for support against the French,
and was refused (Drew; Snow 54). Minh expected such support based on Roosevelts commitment to the Atlantic Charter, and also because of Minhs support of the allied cause during World
War II. The French had agreed to recognize Vietnam independence within the French Union as part of a deal which would allow French troops into Vietnam to participate in disarming
Japanese troops after World War II (Drew; Snow). Once the French were in a position to keep Vietnam, they refused to honor the agreement. The U.S. deplored the French
violation of Vietnamese self-determination, but the Cold War was already taking shape. Ho was a Communist and, therefore, the U.S. could not help his cause (Drew; Snow 55). This was
ironic because Ho Chi Minh had turned to Communism because Western leaders would not hear his petition for Vietnamese self-determination at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 (54). In February
of 1947, Great Britain announced its plans to withdraw from Greece. Since the end of World War II, British forces had been propping up the Greek government against guerrilla forces
which were believed to be supported by Moscow (Readers Companion 102). The U.S. feared that this would mean the fall of Greece, and possibly Turkey as well, to Communism.
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