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After America¡¦s defeat of Japan in World War II, the French continued its colonial rule in Vietnam until 1954 when the Vietminh, Ho Chi Minh¡¦s communist army, defeated it once and for all. In response, the American President Dwight D. Eisenhower imposed a demilitarized zone on Vietnam that split the country into two and effectively delineated a civil war boundary between the Northern communists under Ho Chi Minh¡¦s rule and the Southern nationalists under Ngo Dinh Diem. The United States intervened in Vietnam from 1945 to 1054 to maintain an alliance with the French, to guard its(the American) economic interests, and to stop the domino theory that (domino theory or Domino Theory?) predicted the regional spread of communism from one region to another. In January o