{"id":3037,"date":"2014-05-24T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2014-04-21T22:02:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T19:02:59","slug":"the-vietnam-war-why-was-the-usa-so-concerned-that-communism-could-spread-into-vietnam-in-particular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/the-vietnam-war-why-was-the-usa-so-concerned-that-communism-could-spread-into-vietnam-in-particular\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vietnam War &#8211; Why was the USA so concerned that communism could spread into Vietnam in particular?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jfk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3035\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jfk.jpg\" alt=\"jfk\" width=\"373\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jfk.jpg 373w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jfk-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><a style=\"color: #3b6cc3;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/igcse\/cuba_vietnam\/2_VIETNAM\/1_Why_USA_involved-ENTRANCE-DONE\/2_EntrancePart2.docx\">JFK Speech writing Task Part [2]: Why was the USA so concerned that communism could spread into Vietnam in particular?<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #3b6cc3;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/TEACHER_AREA\/igcse\/VIETNAM\/1_Entrance_Part2-TEACHER.docx\">Teacher Answer sheet<br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This worksheet gets students to anticipate how the USA managed the difficult situation in Vietnam &#8211; the capitalist, Catholic regime of Diem (and his wife, nicknamed &#8216;dragon lady&#8217;) in the South was deeply unpopular with the largely Buddhist population. Some Buddhists even burnt themselves alive in protest (Diem dismissed these &#8216;barbecues&#8217; as pathetic publicity stunts).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JFK Speech writing Task Part [2]: Why was the USA so concerned that communism could spread into Vietnam in particular?\u00a0|\u00a0Teacher Answer sheet This worksheet gets students to anticipate how the USA managed the difficult situation in Vietnam &#8211; the capitalist, Catholic regime of Diem (and his wife, nicknamed &#8216;dragon lady&#8217;) in the South was deeply&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/the-vietnam-war-why-was-the-usa-so-concerned-that-communism-could-spread-into-vietnam-in-particular\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,6,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-MZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}