Franklin D. Roosevelt and United States policy toward Indochina during World War II

Abstract

The history of the United States policy toward and involvement in what is now North and South Vietnam has been and remains a source of bitter debate. There are very few facts amicably agreed upon and even fewer volumes not the subject of someone's castigation. This is, of course, due to the strong passions the subject evokes in light of the past and present United States commitment there. These emotions have found their way into most of the written work on the problem, and the result has been more often products of the heart than refined scholarship.