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In Europe and North America, the American aggression in Vietnam is best known as the "Vietnam War". However, it would be more appropriate to place the conflict in the larger context of wars of national liberation and thus call it the "Indochina Conflict". It was a conflict in which several distinct wars intertwined and which was shaped by local, metropolitan, and international factors. The Indochina Conflict demonstrates the freedom of action of clientele systems during the Cold War, and reflects the fragmentation of the so-called communist bloc in terms of ideology and power politics. Below the level of the global struggle, the Cold War system was multipolar.
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