Ho Chi Minh (alias Nguyen Sinh Cung‚ Nguyen Tat Thanh‚ and Nguyen Ai Quoc) was one of the greatest leaders of all time in Vietnam. He was born on the nineteen of May‚ 1890 in Kim Lien village‚ Nam Dan district‚ Nghe An province. Social context and family education has a profound affected him when he was young. He attended school in Hue and then taught at a private school in Phan Thiet for a short time. In 1911‚ he went to abroad‚ did many different jobs. He also participated in the revolutionary
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Vietnam War is now considered as one of the most distressing moments in the 20th Century. So why did the US become involved in the Vietnam War? What was Ho Chi Minh thinking when he was fighting for Nationalism? Who was Diem? And why was the Vietnam War have such a devesting impact on both the US and Vietnam. The civil war between the French and Viet Minh was a major cause of the war. It is said that the Vietnam War‚ or the Second Indochina War‚ was just a continuation of the First Indochina War. The
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Ho Chi Minh and Ngo Dinh Diem Sandra Jaime Devry University Gary Grimm Ho Chi Minh and Ngo Dinh Diem Following the Geneva conference in1954‚ an agreement was signed to end the First Indochina war. The agreements also lead to the temporary division of the Democratic of Vietnam into two sub- countries separated along the Laotian border next to the 17th parallel. To the north was the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and its capital in Hanoi and to the south was the Republic of Vietnam and its
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the North and the Mekong River delta in the South. Hanoi‚ the nation’s capital‚ lies on the banks of the Red River. It is not only the country’s political‚ cultural and educational capital but also the most important economic center in the North. Ho Chi Minh City‚ the new name for Saigon‚ lies just north of the Mekong Delta in the South‚ and is the largest city in Vietnam. The city‚ with a population of five million‚ functions as the country’s economic heart and business hub. Danang‚ in the central
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rubber. Much of this was sent to France. Vietnam also provided a good market for French manufactured goods. In 1902 Ho Chi Minh was a student in the university built by the French and resented the foreign occupation of his land and their forced conversion to Catholic christianity. He was inspired by the Russian Revolution. And in 1924 he visited the Soviet Union. While in Moscow‚ Ho wrote to a friend that it was the duty of all communists to return to their own country to: “make contact with the masses
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example Eisenhower actively promoted and supported Diem‚ even though it was evident he was corrupt. Even though Eisenhower failed to prevent North Vietnam from becoming Communist‚ which was never a realistic possibility with the popularity of Ho Chi Minh‚ he did reject the option of using the atomic bomb on North Vietnam. The use of the atomic bomb on the North would have meant the end of the war‚ with the South and America victorious. In the 1940s‚ The Red Scare had created an anti-communist hysteria
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victory against the French at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 brought about dramatic changes to Indochina. These changes took place in the Geneva Conference which shortly happened after the battle of Dien Bien Phu. General Vo Nguyen Giap and Ho Chi Minh who were the Vietminh’s leader had only one goal and that was to unify Vietnam and declare independence from colonial rule but however their goals were not achieved at the end of the Geneva Conference due to a number of reasons. The Battle of Dien
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Please read the attached documents on ORT. You need to make notes on the aims of ORT‚ successes and failures. Your essay is due in for two weeks time. Edexcel AS History Unit 1 Ideology‚ Conflict and Retreat: the USA in Asia 1950-1973 by Geoff Stewart ------------------------------------------------- Operation Rolling Thunder ------------------------------------------------- Programme of bombing of North Vietnam authorised by Johnson on 13 February 1965 but not begun until 2 March. It was
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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a battle in the 1st Indochina War between the Viet Minh and the French colonial forces. For 55 days‚ 10000 men of the French forces battled against nearly 50000 Viet Minh guerrillas. The battle resulted in a shameful loss for the French and was one of the worst military disasters for the French of all time. This battle spelled the end of the 1st Indochina War. One cause of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the French Plan. General Henri Navarre‚ commander-in-chief
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French and Chinese had a large influence in Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh was one Vietnamese who tried to stop that. He worked his way into creating an independent Vietnam and organized an army using guerrilla warfare. Minh went to war with the French and ended up winning and this helped create a free North and South Vietnam. South Vietnam had an uprising and a communist group called the Vietcong arose using the same guerilla warfare that Ho Chi Minh used to defeat France. With the United States backing
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