Foreign Intervention on Vietnam War (50% Done)

since we are "evaluating the effect of foreing intervention on civil wars",

Background

1964 Gulf Of Tonkin, US officially entering the war

mention about past US presidents

Truman supporting French

Eisenhower supporting the South and Diem

maybe also talk about Kennedy

P1: US intervention

talk about "why did america didnt win, even with this amount of support"

= had small effect to the war

Kennedy and Johnson (especially Johnson)

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weakness

us forces do not know land

could not get coorporation from

P2: Communist Intervention

(still not publicly released much, so difficult to find)

before the 2nd civil war

Stalin in the first civil war: not much support, but did gave german weapons

China gave some support of weapons etc

after the gulf of tonkin

chinese support also escalated

while us broke buildings by the Rolling Thunder, china gave construction support

also send troops to protect North Vietnam instead, so that NVA could fight in the South Vietnam

Soviet Union

leader changed to Brezhnev

Kosygin visit to South Vietnam

sending alot of weapons later

by the late 1960s, more than three quarters of the military and technical equipment received by North Vietnam was coming from the Soviet Union.

also, it was not load, but aid (provided for free)

P3: Other factors

wekaness of ARVN

popularity of Ho

unpopularity of Diem,

Effectiveness of gurellia warfare