Can you contrast the two viewpoints regarding the legacy of the Vietnam war
Communists saw the Vietnam War as an extension of their struggle with France, as another attempt by a foreign power to rule Vietnam, and as a war of national liberation. China and the Soviet Union supported the Vietnamese Communists with war materials but not troops.
US believed S Asia to be a crucial frontier in the fight against communist expansion so it viewed as essential to its containment.
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