1945 was an important year in world history with the defeat of Germany and the first atomic test explosions taking place, followed by use of these nuclear bombs on Japan. At the end of World War II the United States did not feel threatened by the Soviet Union because they did not have access to this weapon. Further, the U.S. made threats with this nuclear weaponry every time a crisis arose, such as Azerlicuja

If only the President, the Senate, and the American public had listened to arguments and pleas such as these, given them equal consideration and acted upon rationale instead of fear, things might have been different and many lives saved. But this was not the case. The fear of communism was very real. Fear of nuclear war was experienced by everyone from the President down to the young school child learning to hide under his or her desk in case of attack. Fear - the most powerful weapon anyone has every had against the affluent, strongest nation in the world. Fear someone might do to us what we threatened to do to them.

The U.S. declared publically to not use force and to devote its efforts to peace after this conference, but privately it did not. Unilateral involvement and support to the South Vietnamese government to continue the anti-Vietminh struggle was supplied by America.

The option of supporting Ho Chi Ming was so feared that it brought about the refusal of the U.S. to sign the Geneva Accords of 1954. In attendance at these talks were France, Britain, China, Soviet Union, the United States and delegates from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. It was proposed that Vietnam be divided at the 17th parallel temporarily until elections could be held. Further, Ming was to pull Communist troops out of South Vietnam, and those who wished to move South or North were allowed to do so. John Foster Dulles and Eisenhower attended this pivotal conference. This conference gave the U.S. the opportunity to negotiate for containment with the Soviet Union and China, but Dulles obstructionist diplomacy became a "major turning point in the American Relationship with Vietnam." He demanded petty seating rearrangements, refused to shake Zhou Enlai's hand, convinced the Chinese that the U.S. had "vile and arrogant" intentions, and did not use constructive leadership i!

the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly."

In 1949 several things occurred in the world adding to the intensity of the Cold War and the fear held by most Americans. Mao Tsetung and his communist forces took over China in a political victory against Jiang Jieshi's Nationalist party. This fear of the loss of China to communism escalated defensive policy in Europe in order to contain communism's spread, making Vietnam a contested borderland of the Cold War. Further fuel to t

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