![]() ![]() 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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