![]() ![]() State Department are shifted to other areas because their correct predictions of the events in China are viewed as a failure to stand up against the Communists.ġ954. What we might today call “Communophobia” becomes the core of American foreign policy. There is recrimination over “Who lost China?” McCarthyism emerges. ![]() In Halberstam’s telling, this sends shock waves through the American political system. His speech draws angry rebukes from many American foreign policy leaders.)ġ949. Kennedy, who also is hostile to French colonialism, gives a speech criticizing the French in North Africa. ![]() President Harry Truman’s State Department is more sympathetic to the French. Roosevelt had been averse to French colonialism, but he dies in April of 1945. France re-establishes its colonial rule over Indochina (Vietnam), but many Vietnamese people want independence, and war ultimately breaks out. As Halberstam does in his book, 2 it will be useful here to sketch a timeline of the Vietnam War.ġ945. ![]()
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