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US Foreign Policy in South-East Asia
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| INDO-CHINA | Made up of Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaya, Thailand and Vietnam |
| FRENCH INDO-CHINA | Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam |
| VIET MINH | Vietnamese Independence League formed to fight against the Japanese |
| HO CHI MINH | Leader of the Viet Minh |
| DOMINO THEORY | US belief that there was an international communist threat. If one country fell, so would the next and so on |
| DIEN BIEN PHU | French fortress town in Vietnam, the secne of a heavy French defeat in May 1954 |
| GENEVA CONFERENCE | Held to reduce Cold War tensions |
| GENEVA ACCORDS | War between France and the Viet Minh was ended; Vietnam divided along the 17th Parallel; 10 km DMZ; North became communist under Ho Chi Minh; South became a republic under Ngo Dinh Diem; Laos and Cambodia independent and neutral; elections to be held in 1956 for a single Vietnamese government |
| SEATO | South East Asia Treaty Organisation; set up by Dulles in September 1954; USA, Britain, Australia,France, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand; mutual defence and the containment of communism; the legal basis of US involvement in Vietnam |
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