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This 3 page paper discusses Vietnam as part of the Cold War, and also as a guerrilla action. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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and U.S.S.R. that stretched from the 1940s to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. It is marked by periods of high tension intermixed with an easing of relations.
Vietnam, however, was a "shooting war," with millions of Vietnamese dead and over 58,000 Americans lost. Still, most sources see the two as being directly linked, with Vietnam being a
typical Cold War struggle. This paper discusses Vietnam as part of the Cold War, and whether or not it can be considered in any other way. Discussion If we consider
the Cold War to be a struggle between America and what it saw as Communist aggression world-wide, then Vietnam is a "classic example of Cold War conflict" (Trueman, 2007). Although
the allies had been victorious in Europe in WWII, Communism had "taken root in China"; Eastern Europe was now in Russian hands, and America feared that Communism would spread throughout
Asia (Trueman, 2007). This is the so-called "domino theory," which says that if one nation goes Communist, the one next to it will also turn, and so on. A moments
reflection will reveal that there is no logical reason why this should happen, but in the 1950s and 1960s fears of a Communist takeover were quite real, and the theory
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietnam War can be considered a Cold War conflict. Before WWII, Vietnam
had belonged to France, but during the war it was overrun by the Japanese (Trueman, 2007). When the Japanese left, the Vietnamese established their own government under the leadership of
Ho Chi Minh (Trueman, 2007). But the allies gave South Vietnam back to France and left North Vietnam to the non-Communist Chinese (Trueman, 2007). (Trueman doesnt say whether anybody bothered
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