User:Joseph Miller Jr321/sandbox

I would like to make some suggestions on content to improve the article titled Vietnam War. I am a novice to contributing to Wikipedia so please correct any mistakes I make in this process.

In the Background to 1949 section a lot of content is lacking. The United States was involved in Vietnam actually before WWII. The United States had military personnel working with the French and the Vietnam resistance to the occupation of French Indochina by the Japanese Imperial Army. Following the defeat of France and establishment of the Vichy Regime, the Vichy capitulated and invited the JIA to occupy Indochina. The USA retaliated for the occupation by imposing an embargo on the sales of crude oil to Japan. The embargo lead the Japanese to realize that they had a choice to capitulate or go to war. They chose the later believing that a massive strike against the US Navy by the Imperial Japanese Navy would lead to US withdrawl from Asia. This attack occurred, of course, at Peal Harbor on Dec 7, 1941. Even before the defeat of France the U.S. had been heavily involved in the war against Japan. First by supporting the Chinese Nationalists and Chiang Ki Shek by flying supplies from Burma. Then of course conducting bombing raids in China against Japanese Army. General Joe Stilwell was active in China in 1937 and 1938. The U.S. supported the French in Indochina during the days leading up to the Japanese occupation with U.S military personnel fighting side by side with Ho Chi Minh and the resistance forces. In addition, the U.S Navy had approached the British in Singapore to establish a U.S.Navy Base there to block the Straits of Mallacca for the Japanese Imperial Navy and cut off their access to the crude oil in the Middle East. The Straits are so narrow that even a couple of U.S. Submarines could be a lethal deterrent to the JIN.

Please let me know if this is useable input. I know I need to add dates and sources.

Thanks, Joe Miller Oberlin College 1973