te this fear, saw this as an attack on a friendly power (France). And Promised aid to the French in an attempt to recapture the country. Ho Chi Min who wanted to make the US and ally now finds himself their enemy. He then declares his country a communist nation in order to solicit support for his cause and government in the Soviet Union and now communist China. This now small dispute becomes a global conflict where the United States ends up having to pull out without reaching the desired military goals, all because the people of the US were to afraid of losing what they had fought and worked so hard to achieve, that they turned what could have been a huge success of US foreign policy into one of the greatest blemishes on the united states government in over a century.The time that directly proceed the second world war was one of prosperity and growth for the people of the United States as well as for the country as a whole. The experience of the depression combined with the now looming threat of the Communist Soviet Union and the possibility of full-scale nuclear warfare, caused a mass panic in the hearts of the American people. By the nineteen fifties this began to manifest itself in government and the American foreign policy. It was this foreign policy created by the American paranoia of some impending doom, whether in the form of domestic economic disaster, foreign infiltration of our culture, or the onslaught of war, that caused the United States entrance into the Vietnam War.Rethinking MacCarthyism, not MacCarthy ...
