French+(France)

The French were a large part of why the U.S. got involved in the situation in vietnam. France had already been involved in Vietnam for quite some time, and the U.S had been supplying them with millions of dollars worth of supplies to avoid getting involved personally, but still contribute to the fight against communism. Yet the U.S. was putting so much money into giving aid to France that it ultimately got to the point where it would make more sense to send troops rather than lose more money as well as put France into huge war debt. Eisenhower and Dulles ignored the terrible lesson of the deft of France. French power in Indochina and Americas effort to enter the struggle with its own military power.

The US's aid to France in Vietnam could be seen as a long term ideological cause. The US has, in the past, supported anyone fighting communism because fear of Communism spreading.


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