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Thesis: America's involvement in the Vietnamese Conflict, was to stop the spreading of communism in Southeast Asia. The United States played a major role in . Its influence was greatest in the South, led by the Capitalist party of Ngo Dinh Diem. The French had been defeated by the Vietminh, trying to defend South Vietna ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... to unite with them, but the South wanted to break away and start it's own country. But with little compromise the only thing that occurred was negotiation by force. The Geneva Conference in 1954, officially split Vietnam into two parts, North or Vietminh and South or French supported. It also ended the fighting of the North and South under several circumstances. First it officially declared France defeated by the Vietminh. After this was officially declared the United States stepped in to influence the South ....