Vietnam Post 1950
Describe and assess the role of the USA in Indo-China in the period 1945-1954In 1943 President Roosevelt suggested that Indochina come under the control of four powers after the war, proposing that the eventual independence of the Indochinese might follow in twenty to thirty years time. No one knew whether the policy would require American troops, but America was firm on the fact that independence could not be taken by the Vietnamese, but would be granted to the Vietnamese by the Great Powers at their convenience. At the Yalta conference Roosevelt repeated his desire for a trusteeship but during March 1945 he considered the possibility of French restoration in return for their promise that independence would eventually occur. At the Potsdam Conference of July 1945, the issue of Indochina was resolved by authorizing the British takeover of the nation south of the 16th parallel and Chinese occupation north of it. This meant that the French, whom the British had supported since 1943, would return. This effectively made the USA responsible for the French reoccupation. USA's support for the French return to Indochina was logical, as this provided a way to stop the Communists from advancing in the East. By mid-August Frenc
In September the United States agreed to give the French a grant of $385 million to begin the 'Navarre Plan', a plan devised to destroy the Viet Minh forces by 1955. By this time the French were beginning to feel the economic pressures of the war, and therefore desperately needed United States aid. '(5) The political character of the regime in Vietnam was less consequential than the larger United States design for the area, and the seeds of future United States policy were already forecast when Bruce suggested that '. At the end of 1949 the State Department was convinced that the future of world power remained in Europe, but, as was soon to become evident, this relied upon a French victory in Vietnam. The United States' saw only one way to end the Vietnam problem. Bibliography (1) General Philip Gallagher to General R. The problem the United States faced was how to apply its military power in a way that would avoid a land war in the jungles, one that Dulles always opposed in Asia. 1947-1950: United States inaction By 1947 the American doctrine of containment of communism required the USA to think of the dangers Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh posed.
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