through the 1960s‚ Ho Chi Minh tried persistently to gain basic rights and freedoms for his people to no avail. The French had oppressed the Vietnamese during the duration of their occupation and had no intention of giving that up. Ho Chi Minh never intended to have a revolutionary war as his first solution to the increasing hardships against his fellow countrymen. Instead he asked the French peacefully for these freedoms. France’s colonial stubbornness refused to answer Minh’s wishes and as a result relations
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centuries; shaping today’s North America‚ Central-America‚ South America‚ Africa‚ Oceana‚ and Asia (Western Society‚ 2004). Indochina is a region that today we would consider as Southeast Asia‚ comprised of Laos‚ Cambodia‚ and Vietnam (Indochina‚ 2001). Its most recent and most important contact with the West came from France and America. The West had a negative impact on Indochina because its influence damaged Southeast Asia’s system of government‚ destroyed and diluted the indigenous culture‚ caused
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colonies. And the same can be said concerning French rule in Vietnam‚ where the French were equally oppressive. In the late nineteenth century‚ the French overthrew a feudal monarchy and fought long‚ extended military campaigns against resistance to their rule. Many of Vietnam’s educated elite opposed French rule and would not work for the French‚ but the French found a few opportunistic Vietnamese who would. In Vietnam‚ and elsewhere in Indochina‚ Frenchmen grabbed lands‚ and they built plantations
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s From 1945 onwards ( Indochina- Cochinchina‚ Annam and Tonkin) - The French representative in Vietnam launched a campaign against the Vietminh in 1945 by 1946 he had re-established control of southern Vietnam - October 1946 Ho chi minh was declared president of the DRV (democratic republic of Vietnam-north). This was after the declaration of Vietnam as a free state with a French union in March. - Due to Ho’s weak political direction from Paris (he went to implement the March
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the Vietnamese people and mobilize support for their initiatives? Why‚ in Vietnam‚ was personal leadership so very important? Refer to specific examples Introduction The Geneva Accords that took place in 1954 put an end to the First Indochina War and the beginning of two Vietnamese territories separated by a line of demarcation at 17th parallel: The Communist North or Democratic Republic of Vietnam with its capital in Hanoi and the Anti-Communist South or Republic of Vietnam with its
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influence of communism became a threat to the United States and their values during the Cold War‚ when Vietnam became a proxy war to contain communism in the First Indochina War. Fowler‚ a non-intervening British reporter living in Vietnam‚ meets Pyle of the Economic Attache‚ representing the United States to aid French in the First Indochina War to preserve Western values in the novel The Quiet American by Graham Greene. However Pyle’s arrogance in intervening Vietnam makes Fowler think negatively of
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military‚ diplomatic‚ and political factors in such a way as to clarify America’s involvement and ultimate failure in Vietnam." <br> <br>Herring begins his account with a summary of the First Indochina War. He reports that the Vietnamese resisted French imperialism as persistently as they had Chinese. French colonial policies had transformed the Vietnamese economic and social systems‚ giving rise to an urban middle class‚ however; the exploitation of the country and its people stimulated more radical
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1946 and 1965. During World War II‚ France lost control of Vietnam because the country was defeated by Germany (722). Due to the France defeat‚ Vietnam had a weak internal government‚ which resulted in the invasion of Japanese’s forces into French Indochina (725). In 1946‚ France declared war against the Communist Party of Vietnam‚ led by Ho Chi Minh‚ who was fighting for liberation of colonial power (“The Cold War in Asia”). The war lasted 9 years and it resulted in the creation of two nation-states:
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throughout Indochina and some in southern China. This strong backing from neighboring countries allowed the ICP to work to strengthen their cause even with the French trying to stop it. Being able to have a backing in other countries gives a common ground which also helps with recruitment and getting up a strong following. The heart of the issue for Vietnam‚ and what caused all of these parties who wanted Independence to rise was Imperialism. The French after WWI had turned to Indochina to help heal
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-A History project- Nadine Gan‚ Grade 9 Part One. The Overview History ~ French Indochina ~ Vietnamisation ~ Epilogue Vietnam was a part of the French colony‚ Indo-‐China. Then at September 1940‚ the Japanese decided to invade Vietnam to prevent China from sending supplies through French Indo-‐China. Having invaded by France and Japan
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