An Asian alliance, set up by Secretary Dulles based on the model NATO, to help the anticommunist in South Viet
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SEATO   south east asian treaty organization...need more help, im me
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Found an interesting piece of interview with CONDOLEEZZA RICE from 2002 when she was NSA.\n\n...\nNATO was an alliance that was founded first and foremost to unite democracies, and it continues to do that with the expansion to new democracies in seven states today. But it was also an alliance that was meant to contain the Soviet Union, to face off against the Warsaw Pact, to face off against Soviet tanks coming across the German plains.\n\nWell, that clearly is not the scenario for conflict any long, and those capabilities are going to have to be transformed. I think after September 11, there was even a degree of frustration within the alliance that there were not the kinds of capabilities that could be deployed rapidly to help with the war in Afghanistan and with the fight against terrorism; that states did contribute but they did so really as individual states. The alliance wasn't able to act as it wanted to, and that has been a spur to the alliance to think about this rapid reaction force.\n\nAnd as to whether the alliance can act quickly, it's quite remarkable that this only came onto the agenda, this rapid reaction force, in September, when Secretary Rumsfeld came to Warsaw, presented the concept, and here some two months later, the alliance has adopted the concept, so it can act quickly, and I think it will continue to.\n...
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It refers to the viet cong who were the Vietnamese nationals that were fighting against the Americans.
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Agree on the tactics that the US implemented in THe Viet war >no\n\nAgree on the overtaking of SAigon by VietCOng> No\n\nAgree on North Vietnam breaking the Geneva conventions > The VietCong Did and yes\n\nIm not sure. Your question is too open ended, try narrowing down the range for people to give more efficient answers
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The American government decided that the Communism that was spreading into Viet Nam from China was unacceptable. They went in to try to stop it. The south of the country sided with the Americans in wanting to have democratic government. The north wanted to be Communist like their Chinese cousins. The war was fought. America lost and needed to evacuate quickly before being overrun by communist forces in 1975, abandoning their former allies (only SOME of whom were evacuated with them). South Viet Nam was converted to communism and absorbed into one country.\n\nAny of this sound familiar?
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it was the U.S. trying to stop the spread of communism. pesidents such as Truman used this as a foreign policy. Truman created the Truman Doctrine which orignated when Greece and Hungary were being supressed by Communism. They requested help and Truman said that the U.S. would provide money for anyone trying to stop communism.\n\nNATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was also created to stop the spread of communism. it was basically a pact between european and american countries that they would help eachother resist communism and an attack on one was an attack on all.\n\nVietnamn: we went to vietnamn to stop communism from spreading to south vietnamn. but we sucked and basically failed because saigon fell to communism after we left.\n\nthe cuban missile crisis: JFK learned that the soviets were putting missiles and bases in Cuba. HE spent 13 days negotioating with the soviet union and eventually got them to stay out of cuba if we removed our missiles from turkey and promised to stay out of cuba.\n\ni can't think of anymore right now but theres a lot.\n\nthe marshall plan was also created after world war two to keep communism out of the weak european countries.
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After the French's attempt to recolonize Vietnam was defeated at Dien Bien Phu by Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh army, a meeting at Geneva agreed to partition the country into demilitarized zones (North - free Vietnam, communist and South - french/us influence, democratic). The North wanted to reunite Vietnam (as a second meeting in Geneva was scheduled, which was blocked by South) while South wanted independence (with US support). At Geneva joint elections were decided with a Communist Party running for the North and a Democratic one for the South, however the South blocked the elections as US knew communist support was strong even in the South and they would win. \nOfficially the war began with the Communist offensive in 1963 and the '63 coup which overthrew the Democratic govt of the South, but for two years before that the South was plagued by Communist insurgency as Communist factions of teh South were armed by the North via the famouse 'Ho Chi Minh trail'. Later that year US stated its support of the South govt (even though Kennedy grew frustrated with the South politic of violence and repression, which led to protests even among Democratic supporters). After Kenndy's assasionation, Lyndon Johnson called for continuous military action, using as propaganda the fight against communism (even though US helped in the prohibition of elections which would have united Vietnam instead of dividing it).\nUS military actions were officially terminated in 1973.\nWhy did US fail in the war:\n- gradually changing war policies (escallation) which gave Vietcong time to adapt, instead of dealing swift and decisive strikes.\n- war crimes (massacres, public executions led even against journalists and civilian population) which turned even US supporters towards communist side. When policy changed towards winning 'heart and mids' of Vietnamese people, it was too late as it was clear US wasn't there to help and protect Vietnam.
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vietnam \nIndo-Pak war 1971
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I am a Viet Nam veteran, serving with the First Cavalry Division in  the Central Highlands.  When I was there, in 1966-67, I supported what we were doing.  After I got home and studied the situation and what was happening in Viet Nam my mind was changed.  After Robert MacNamera apologized for the lies that got us into that war, I knew the US was wrong for going into the Nam.  The Domino Theory was a big fat lie.  We lost the war and I didn't see the whole area turning communist.  In fact Cambodia is a free nation know.  Viet Nam only wanted to be free from foreign domination which they finally achieved.  The US doesn't have the right to tell other countries what to do and how to live, but in todays world, might makes right so we interfer where we shouldn't
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Communism is the buzzword.  But really its called Imperialism.\nWars outside of national soil are for greed and pride.\nKorea and Vietnam did not represent a threat to the US.  Not until they decided to attack first.
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Americans need to be concerned about him being there to arrange more of their jobs going to asia where the wages are lower.  Vietnam is a case in point.
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Yes it played a major role into the failures of the Vietnam War.  Limited War provides a safe haven for the enemy, where they can regroup and launch additional attacks.
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NATO supports dictators to keep enemies out of office, remember Saddam?  We supported him to keep the Shiite theocracy out of Iraq.  Lesser of two evils.
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Korea and Vietnam (although Vietnam reunified)
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Doesn't matter, as long as we keep our NATO allies.
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After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, JFK did not want to make another mistake with the communists and ordered financial and military assistance to support the South Vietnamese army (ARVN). Military assistance was limited to equipment and advisors until Johnson took over and ordered combat troops to take over fighting from the ARVN forces after the Tonikan incidents.
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NATO did NOT support it even though it is essentially rules by the USA.\n\nIs the situation so bad that now right-wingers have to fake a multi-lateral appraoch???? Withdraw the troops before more die, cut the losses