In 1950, the Truman Administration shifted from pro-French neutrality to outright support for Paris in its war with the Vietminh because of
A. the Communists' victory in the Chinese civil war.
B. the strong realization that the loss of further territory to Communism would come at a steep domestic political price.
C. heightened Cold War fears in the wake of the Soviet Union's detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949.
D. the belief that the fall of Indochina to Communism would force resource-starved Japan into the Communist Bloc.
E. All of these.
Answer: E
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