e Chinese, the uprising wasn’t even started by external Communist influence, and this was solely the problem of the French to deal with. What many people in the U.S. thought was the theory of the ‘domino effect’. This is the theory that if one key country in Southeast Asia would fall to the ideology of Communism, then the small surrounding would also. With the Cold War on the other side of the U.S. any country that became communist, whether very influential or not, was still considered a loss. With that in mind, an effort was made to flex muscles to scare the rebels from being more serious. However it was said that if a firm stance is not taken early on in a conflict, the other side sees a weakness. Let this be a false notion or true, but the insight is one that encourages the other side to stay strong, thus starting a war.The next topic covered is what the roots were that grew a tree of failure for the U.S. in the war. In the beginning of the conflict, full effort was not given to the cause. This was the most vulnerable time for the Vietminh because they were still rallying for their cause and had no outside help yet. The U.S. started with only sending several troops at a time, only slowly escalating that number in an attempt to keep the issue quiet and not give Russia and China the idea to step in. If the full U.S. Army was sent at first sign of a danger, there would have be in rout without question and there would have been nothing left for the larger communist countries to support. Next, a short segment is made to how the French did not even fully commit to this issue. They had the idea that they would be forced to withdraw from controlling Vietnam after the South Vietnamese were back in power to prevent further conflicts. Because of that, they withdrew from control in the middle of the war and up until that point were wary about sending much help at all for the cause. None of this was to say that the...
