The French were defeated in the Dien Bien Phu battle in 1954. They were driven out then.
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The defeat at Dien Bien Phu led the French military to surrender their positions in Vietnam. The French left Vietnam, leaving the United States at the forefront of the conflict.
The Vietnam war ended in 1975, Gerald Ford was president.
Vietnam (a country within Indochina) was a French colony (just as the United States had been a colony of Great Britain). During WWII, Japan occupied French Indochina. When Japan surrendered, ending WWII; France returned to her former colony. Vietnam resisted the move, and war ensued from 1946 until 1954.
Madness, sheer madness. The Domino Theory held that if one country fell to Communism, then the next would, and so on. This is bad because a) Communism is not very nice and b) Communist countries are not a market for US goods. Therefore the US must protect South Vietnam from the Commies in the North. However, as the French had already proved, this was impossible.
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