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Show Communism's continuing expansion: ex-pansion: 1920 Old Bolshevik Ho Chi Minh, Stalin Lieutenant (real name: Nguyen Ai Quoc) helped establish Communism in France. 1923 Ho trained extensively extensive-ly in Moscow, became member of Commintern. 1925 Ho dispatched to China to organize for Communist Com-munist takeover of Asian masses. 1930 Ho established Indo-China Indo-China Communist Party. 1941 Ho organized Viet Minh into military unit, based in strategic Vietnam, as vanguard van-guard for eventual domination of Southeast Asia. 1946-1950 Ho's Viet Minh gradually, without exposing themselves, gained control of four provinces on central coast of South Vietnam; the "Red" zone north of Saigon, the Plain of Reeds near Cambodia border, and southermost Ca Mau peninsula. His minions began agitating for Communist presence in Vietnam government. govern-ment. 1950-1954 Ho's Red military mili-tary comrades mastermined shattering victory "for independence" inde-pendence" over French expeditionary ex-peditionary forces. Had backing back-ing of large numbers of South Vietnamese. Following war victory, many South Vietnam army officers, indoctrinated by skilled Communists, went to North Vietnam (in 1954) when the Geneva Agreement split the nation into north and south, gave north over to Communists, Commu-nists, left South as "democratic" "demo-cratic" republic. Ho's murderer's mur-derer's killed thousands of citizens as more than a million fled his repressive Communism. Commu-nism. 1956 With South heavily infiltrated and with his Red cadres prepared to manipulate election, Ho demanded "unification" "unifi-cation" election. With U. S. backing, Diem government thwarted his scheme, would not permit election. Reds then sought representation in South Vietnam government a beachhead from which they could build dominant control. Diem blocked them. 1956-1959 Ho prepared his North Vietnam forces for invasion in-vasion and war to obtain political and physical control of South Vietnam. South Vietnamese Red military men (after their training sojourn so-journ in the North) slipped back into South to organize guerrilla bands. 1959 Ho's forces struck in dozens of sections of South Vietnan, 1961 President Kennedy authorized limited aid to South Vietnam; committed U. S. military forces. 1963-1968 President Johnson John-son massively expanded U. S. commitment (but with paralyzing para-lyzing military restrictions); in 1968, bowing to great clamor of "Dove" forces, he halted bombing vital targets. 1969 President Nixon offered of-fered "peace" terms to Communist Com-munist including Reds participation par-ticipation in election in South Vietnam. Ho still refuses all offers. |