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Ho Chi Minh
Anti French
Traveled
Vietnamese
independenc
e
Communist
The Domino
Theory
Stopping communists in
Vietnam was important to
the protection of the
entire region
BATTLE RESULTS
Geneva Conference
free elections &unity
1956
independence Vietnam, Laos &
Cambodia
17th parallel:
N Vietnam &
S Vietnam
CONTAINMENT ASIA
ANTICOMMUNIST W.
EUROPE
Vietcong/NLF
Guerrilla Fighters!
National
Liberation Front
Communist
rebel group
South
insurgents
Devout
Roman
Catholic
antiBuddhis
t laws
Vietnam (ARVN)
Diem hindrance
Nov 1, 1963
removed &
assassinated
August 2, 1964
USS Maddox
aggression by terror
I AM THE
ULTIMATE Cold
Warrior!