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Post-World War II and the Long Road to Vietnam

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  Post-World War II and the Long Road to Vietnam In the post-World War II era between 1945 and 1950 many new nations and colonies of Europe found themselves engaged in insurgencies and civil war. Vietnam was no exception. France fought a determined enemy that was Communist-Marxist and supported by both China and the Soviet Union. Given the lessons of the failed French involvement in Indochina as well as numerous other insurgencies across the world (such as Algeria), should the United States have avoided engaging in combat operations in Indochina?   With the end of World War II the United States found the peace she fought so hard for tenuous at best with the rise of Communism sponsored by the Soviet Union. Ideologies were now pitted against each other with both nations, in diametric opposition, fighting a new “cold war”.   Both the US and the Soviet Union used proxy states or supported regimes that were allied in opposition to the others influence. The ideas of democracy and free market