The Vietnam War was a long, bloody conflict that ended with the United States’ first major military upset. It had huge ramifications, nationally and globally. The French had occupied Indochina since the 1800s. At the First Indochinese War, which lasted from the late 1940s to the mid 1950s, Communist forces defeated American-aided French troops in Vietnam. President Eisenhower, reacting to the Communist show of might, tried to establish an anti-Communist government just south of the seventeenth parallel.
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