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Why did the us support french efforts to recolonize vietnam in 1950?.

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America wanted France as an ally in its Cod War effort to contain the Soviet Union. Truman believed that if he supported Vietnamese independence, he would weaken anticommunist forces in France. To ensure French support in the Cold war, Truman agreed to aid France's efforts to regain control over Vietnam

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