The US would've been off the gold standard around this time anyways. Balance of trade deficits and continuous French conversion of US dollars for gold meant that a gold standard during that time was unsustainable (not to mention silly in a modern economic system, but I digress).it would have saved the USA a lot of money.
They might not have needed to go off the gold standard in the early 1970s.
I'm afraid you're wrong, my fellow countryman. The Viet Minh succeeded against the French with minimal Soviet aid. Most of their equipment during the French War was French, Japanese or funnily enough, American. They also had the support of large swathes of the people, and after 1945, the French only really controlled the towns.Perhaps area not get to hands of commies. USSR hardly would be so intrested if USA not be there.
I'm afraid you're wrong, my fellow countryman. The Viet Minh succeeded against the French with minimal Soviet aid. Most of their equipment during the French War was French, Japanese or funnily enough, American. They also had the support of large swathes of the people, and after 1945, the French only really controlled the towns.
IIRC Ho Chi Min was a great fan of America until they supported the French. If the USA had been neutral in behaviour and friendly behind the scenes Vietnam could have become a left wing democratic state rather than communist I suspect and perhaps butterfly away the Vietnam War.
Spot on. When Indochina war started in 1946 (and until 1949 or so) France had to use first, salvaged Japanese fighters (!) with Ju-52 (!!) as bombers. Spitfires and Mosquitos followed, but both were utter failures - the British marvels did not liked Indochina at all (Mosquito had wooden structures, Spitfire had shorts legs).And for a long time US didn't support French and placed serious restrictions on how their military aid was to be used. So French got US military aid but weren't allowed to send it to Vietnam. Things only changed after Korean war when Vietnam war was seen as part of global communist bid for world supremacy.