IN CONTEXT
Intervention in Southeast Asia
1947 The Truman Doctrine, pledging American support for free peoples, guides US foreign policy in Southeast Asia.
1953 Cambodia wins its independence from France.
1963 President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is killed in a US-backed military coup.
1967 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, is established to promote stability in the region.
1973 The Paris Peace Accords ends US combat in Vietnam, but does not end the conflict between North and South.
1976 The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is proclaimed, and Saigon is renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Many flee abroad.
In the aftermath of World ...
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