HIS344Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Domino Theory, Australian Football League Draft, Atlantic Charter
Document Summary
While roosevelt stated during yalta that under no circumstance should france and britain get back their colonial holdings stay true to atlantic charter they should not be allowed to recreate empire no sooner did he die until april 23, 1945 did truman turn a new page and the us offered the french unhindered american support in their effort to retain colonial empire in se asian if they supported the us in europe france duked it out with vietnamese nationalists us financed weapons treaty emerged like as in korea vietnam was halved into north and south north becoming communist, south becoming democratic (not even close in reality) this division was predicated on one fact a general election by 1956 the us agreed to ratify that agreement but they never recognized the north as a state eisenhower believed that if the us does not stay strong and maintain vietnam, the entire domino theory would come to play.
