November 13th, 2005  
tomtom22
Chief Engineer
 
 
Gear

Post; Re: Question about Vietnam


Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted
I just wonder what you are taught in Highschool with regards to Vietnam's wishes to souvereignty. Are you still taught that because of the Domino Theory and the communist threat that their wish for self rule should be contained? How can it be that Indonesian wish to decolonisation in '49 was seen as nationalism and stimulated by the Americans and Ho Chi Minh's wishes were seen as communism and not nationalism? Soekarno was more affiliated with the PKI (Indonesian Communist Party) then Ho to the Vietnamese version?
This is something that the younger members, i.e. those who are still in high school or recently graduated, would have to answer. I don't remember from my high school classes in the period of 1955 - 1959 any references to the domino theory or to Indonesia or to Ho Chi Minh.
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