History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Souvanna Phouma, Vang Pao, Central Intelligence Agency
22 Oct 2018
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War not restricted to vietnam, usa treated all of indo china as being at war (laos and. Both laos and cambodia received independence from french in 1984 at the paris peace. Country was multiple groups living amongst each other before war, and became a war ground during the first indo china war. American government not comfortable to a neutralist government controlling territory next to south vietnam. American use cia to take power (right-wing groups), laos descends into a civil war after that. So, big that when jfk came to presidency he was informed about the crisis in laos. Both washington and moscow feared laos could become a flashpoint and it could lead to a nuclear war. So, americans and russians negotiate to agree with seize fire. They neutralized laos and removed it from the war. United states and soviet union would not use or get involved with anything happening in laos. Phouma goes back into power, and again become neutralized.
