{"id":588,"date":"2025-02-21T10:25:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/internationalhistory20c\/?post_type=content&p=588"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:25:24","slug":"chapter-11-the-vietnam-wars-1945-79","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/internationalhistory20c\/students\/chapter-11-the-vietnam-wars-1945-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 11: The Vietnam Wars, 1945\u201379"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chapter 11: The Vietnam Wars, 1945\u201379<\/h1>\n\n\n
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The war in Vietnam is undoubtedly the best-known military conflict of the post-1945 era. The origins of the Vietnam War lay in the Vietnamese struggle to free itself of French colonial rule. In the context of the Cold War, however, the interrelationship between the decolonization of European empires and the rise of Asian communism almost inevitably made Indochina a subject of American interest. The success of the Chinese Revolution was a crucial development: after 1949 the Viet Minh received increasing economic and military aid from the neighbouring People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC). By 1954 war-weariness was mounting in France, while the Soviet Union, the PRC and Britain were all, for various reasons, keen to see a de-escalation of the war in Indochina. The impact of the Americanization of the war was horrific. The Americanization of the Vietnam War between 1965 and 1968 had other important consequences, both for the region and for the Cold War generally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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