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The decision would lead to years of guerrilla warfare with seemingly no victory in sight for America or its allies in South Vietnam. In 1954, France lost control of its former colony in Vietnam and the US stepped in to try and prevent the small country from slipping under Communist influence, at first with military supplies and advisers, then with ground troops. How did journalism help tell the story of the Vietnam War? OverviewĪt the end of World War II, the United States emerged as the world’s economic powerhouse while many European countries struggled to rebuild at home and reassert authority in colonies and client states around the world.