After reading Chapter two in the Bradley book, write a 3-5 page essay using the following documents to explain how the French colonial war turned into a battle in the Cold War.

 

The French War

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After reading Chapter two in the Bradley book, write a 3-5 page essay using the following documents to explain how the French colonial war turned into a battle in the Cold War. Specifically address how the Unites States agencies differed and were the same on tactics in Vietnam and even if we should be involved. You have a lot of freedom here to write about the topics you are interested in, just be sure to build a case about American Involvement from the documents below.

The Pentagon Papers: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/pent5.htm

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/korea/nie15.htm

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/pent7.htm

NSA Report: http://fas.org/irp/nsa/spartans/chapter1.pdf

National Security Council 1950: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/doc1.htm

Rusk to Burns, 1950: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/doc2.htm

Joint Chiefs of Staffs Report, 1950: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/doc3.htm

Secretary of State’s Statement, 1950: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/ps1.htm

George Kennan Memoir, 1950s: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kennanv.htm

National Intelligence Estimate, 1950: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/korea/nie15.htm

National Security Council, 1951: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/korea/nsc100.htm

Dwight Eisenhower, 1951:

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam/dde.htm\

National Security Council, 1952: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/doc10.htm

NATO, 1952:

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/ps6.htm

Secretary of State, 1953:

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/inch016.asp

CIA Estimate, 1953:

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/doc19.htm

An Analysis Of The French Defeat At Dien Bien Phu:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1991/BHD.htm

Chinese Communist Perspective, 1954:

http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/110592.pdf?v=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

National Security Council, 1954:

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/doc30.htm

United States Army Position, 1954:

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/doc30.htm

U.S. Special Committee Report on Southeast Asia:

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/doc32.htm

CIA Reort, 1954:

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/doc40.htm

Millitary Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) Indochina, 1954:

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/doc41.htm

Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1954: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/doc50.htm

CIA, 1954:

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/doc59.htm

Edward Landale’s Reports on Covert Mission in Vietnam (CIA), 1954:

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/doc95.htm