War Against Trees [1963]
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Hopes for peace in the former states of Indochina promised by the 1954 Geneva Agreements soon turned into covert and then overt war as the US replaced France as the regional Western power to counter China and the threat of Communism. A united Communist Vietnam with Ho Chi Minh as president was not part of the American plan for the region. The ‘Domino Theory’ sold to Western public opinion as justification for intervention suggested that if one ‘domino’ (South Vietnam) fell to the Communists, other dominos would follow. It was the duty of America and her allies to stop the ‘Red’ and ‘Yellow’ hordes.
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Hopes for peace in the former states of Indochina promised by the 1954 Geneva Agreements soon turned into covert and then overt war as the US replaced France as the regional Western power to counter China and the threat of Communism. A united Communist Vietnam with Ho Chi Minh as president was not part of the American plan for the region. The ‘Domino Theory’ sold to Western public opinion as justification for intervention suggested that if one ‘domino’ (South Vietnam) fell to the Communists, other dominos would follow. It was the duty of America and her allies to stop the ‘Red’ and ‘Yellow’ hordes.
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