Ho Chi Minh/Domino Theory - Vietnam



A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
A theory that one event will set off a train of similar events.
The domino theory was a foreign policy theory, promoted by the government of the United States, that speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. The domino effect suggests that some change, small in itself, will cause a similar change nearby, which then will cause another similar change.

Ho Chi Minh
was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary and statesman who was Prime Minister (1946–1955) and President (1946–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954.
Some Vietnamese who lived through the war hated Ho Chi Minh for bringing chaos to the country.the Vietnamese in the U.S., who fled communist rule after 1975, view Hồ as a murderer and traitor who ruined Vietnam by starting a war







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