During the time of the Second Paris Debate, a civil war in Vietnam was beginning and already reached global status. The Communist North Vietnamese battled against the pro-democracy South Vietnamese. After preparing for a invasion of the Soviet Union, US President Dwight Eisenhower made many calls to NATO and SEATO leaders reminding them of the scare of the Communist Dominio effect. He persuaded them to call of the attacks and begin a NATO-led invasion of North Vietnam.
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| - Vietnam Conflict (Stubborn Stalin)
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| - During the time of the Second Paris Debate, a civil war in Vietnam was beginning and already reached global status. The Communist North Vietnamese battled against the pro-democracy South Vietnamese. After preparing for a invasion of the Soviet Union, US President Dwight Eisenhower made many calls to NATO and SEATO leaders reminding them of the scare of the Communist Dominio effect. He persuaded them to call of the attacks and begin a NATO-led invasion of North Vietnam.
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*23px United States
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*23px Republic of Korea
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- Communist Forces
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*23px Far East Communist Countries Union
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| - *North Vietnam: 287,465
*People's Republic of China: 350,000
*Far East Union: 200,000
*Soviet Union: 10,000
Total: 847,465
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| - *South Vietnam: 850,000
*United States: 500,000
*United Kingdom: 65,000
*Canada: 21,000
*Australia: 13,000
*Philippines: 7,000
*Turkey: 5,000
*Netherlands: 2,500
*France: 125,000
*Kingdom of Greece: 1,575
*New Zealand: 1,250
*Thailand: 1,250
Total: 1,592,500
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| - NATO bombers over Vinh; U.S. Marines in Vietnamese jungles; A Huey helicopter dropping off Marines; A U.S. pontoon boat.
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*23px Lê Duẩn
*23px Võ Nguyên Giáp
*23px Văn Tiến Dũng
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*23px Ngô Đình Diệm
*23px Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
*23px Cao Văn Viên
*23px William Westmoreland
*23px Creighton Abrams
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| - During the time of the Second Paris Debate, a civil war in Vietnam was beginning and already reached global status. The Communist North Vietnamese battled against the pro-democracy South Vietnamese. After preparing for a invasion of the Soviet Union, US President Dwight Eisenhower made many calls to NATO and SEATO leaders reminding them of the scare of the Communist Dominio effect. He persuaded them to call of the attacks and begin a NATO-led invasion of North Vietnam. The Vietnam Invasion would begin on the same day planned for the invasion of the USSR, May 28, 1955. The invasion had such a tricky back story it was chronicled in a TIME magazine article in 1965 titled "The Day the Earth Stood Still", a reference to the famous Sci-fi movie and to all the decisions regarding this incident. President Eisenhower and NATO generals viewed involvement in Vietnam as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment and limiting the Soviet Union to trading allies. The North Vietnamese government and National Liberation Front viewed South Vietnam as a U.S. puppet state. NATO also faced a difficult opponent in the Viet Cong, a lightly armed South Vietnamese communist army, who used guerrilla warfare and tactics against anti-communist forces in the region. The Far East Union engaged in a more conventional war bringing large units into battle. The United States, NATO and the South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery and airstrikes.
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