But there is no doubt that Communism for all of Vietnam is the primary goal. Certainly, unification of Vietnam is a paramount objective on economic as well as ideological grounds. Because the ...

In spite of rather than because of communism, their standard of living has risen dramatically in the past decade, but, given Vietnam's great natural resources and its clever, persevering work ...

China had become communist in 1949 and communists were in control of North Vietnam. The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send ...

In the fall of 1963 American efforts to build a democratic firewall against Communism in South Vietnam were failing. The country's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, ran the nation like a fiefdom.

Johnson has inherited an ongoing crisis in the south-east Asian nation of Vietnam from his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. The crisis involves the spreading of communism from North Vietnam into the ...

at no point in his chapter on Communism in Asia did he mention that the US intervention in Vietnam had cost, according to some estimates, up to three million lives. Ronald G. Suny further ...

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds Poetry Group. Pardon my French! A now-dead former ...

In 1954, the French were finally defeated by the Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. This defeat was formalised in the Geneva Agreement and temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones: a ...

Contrary to some histories, the term “Viet Cong,” like the war itself, was not a byproduct of the American presence in Vietnam. The rise of physical violence committed against activists is a ...