To: Bilow who wrote (48972 ) 10/2/2002 9:07:37 PM From: maceng2 Respond to The domino theory was that after the Communists took over South Vietnam encyclopedia.com The accord also provided for elections to be held in 1956, aimed at reuniting North and South Vietnam; however, South Vietnam, backed by the United States, refused to hold the elections. The reason was generally held to be that Ho's popularity would have led to reunification under Communist rule. Nearly 14,000 surviving French soldiers were lead into captivity. Their release was negotiated five months later, but, so brutal was their internment that only twenty percent survived to return to Europe. defense-training.com In March of 1945, Ho and Vo, already conducting limited resistance against the Japanese, had secretly received instruction and supplies from American military personnel who had parachuted in and set up training camps. This, as it turns out, was America's first military activity in Vietnam.
