Account for the US Involvement in Vietnam up to the Geneva Accord of 1954?
Even before the US entered World War II American leaders had been making plans for the creation of a peaceful and prosperous world order after hostilities ceased based on a "liberal capitalist system based upon the equal principle of commercial opportunity."# The American policy leaders were haunted by the great depression and feared that when demand for military hardware at the end of the war declined the twin problems of overproduction and unemployment would haunt them again. They chose overseas commercial expan…
