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| | Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Tibet, & Mongolia |
 | | At first, the United States had been reluctant to support the reimposition of French colonial rule, but the growing Communist threat made President Truman of the opinion that the French were the lesser of two evils. |
| | There was little that the Laotians could do to enforce their neutrality, however, against the Vietnamese use of the "Ho Chi Minh Trail," down the length of Laos, as a supply-line to the Communists in South Vietnam. |
| | Cambodian neutrality, like Laotian, was ignored by the Vietnamese Communists, who used Cambodian territory for the terminus of the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" through Laos, and then as a staging area and refuge for operations in South Vietnam. |
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