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Ridgway managed to persuade which president to refrain from direct military intervention in the First Indochina War?

  • President Reagan

  • President Kennedy

  • President Roosevelt

  • President Eisenhower

Answer

President Dwight D. Eisenhower was persuaded by General Matthew Ridgway to refrain from direct military intervention in the First Indochina War. Eisenhower had been planning to send U.S. troops to support the French, but Ridgway argued that the war was not winnable and that the United States would become bogged down in a quagmire similar to the Korean War.
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