... to return their society back to its feudal nature. These rebel groups did not have the manpower nor arms to go up against the French. Most Vietnamese unquestionably wanted their independence from any type of colonial rule. However, as the world started advancing in technology so did the ... involved the struggles of Vietnam for a long time. However, in contrast to Burma, the Vietnamese had always been under someone's thumb even before the French arrived. In the early history of the nation, China invaded and dominated the country on four different occasions. This inevitably made the Chin...

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... of the country was at least nominally Buddhist, with a mixture of Confucian, Taoist, and animalist beliefs. However, there were at least three million Catholics, whose ancestors were converted by French Missionaries between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. The Catholics have been more educated in Western ideas and thus more inclined than their Buddhist compatriots to favor a political system patterned ... and other manufacture goods. Michelin made its tires from raw rubber originally exported from the plantations located among the Vietnamese-Cambodian border. 23. The inher...

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... two Communist superpowers recognized the Viet Minh, the Vietnam war became to the U.S. a struggle between capitalism and communism, especially since the Viet Minh were openly communist themselves. By aiding the French, the U.S. thought they were helping their free-trade ally France fight communism, the Communist Party was very strong in France (Goldstein 3). The U.S. feared that Vietnam would fall to communism, ... Viet Minh forced France to request help from the U.S. Fearing the spread of communism under Ho Chi Minh's regime, the U.S. was glad to offer France assistance, but even after t...

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... two Communist superpowers recognized the Viet Minh, the Vietnam war became to the U.S. a struggle between capitalism and communism, especially since the Viet Minh were openly communist themselves. By aiding the French, the U.S. thought they were helping their free-trade ally France fight communism, the Communist Party was very strong in France (Goldstein 3). The U.S. feared that Vietnam would fall to communism, ... Viet Minh forced France to request help from the U.S. Fearing the spread of communism under Ho Chi Minh's regime, the U.S. was glad to offer France assistance, but even after t...

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... with imperialist France; we consider null and void all the treaties France has signed concerning Vietnam, and we hereby cancel all the privileges that the French arrogated to themselves on our territory" (http://www.cowac.org). Within days, Emperor Bao Dai abdicated, promising to support the new government as a ... private citizen. Many Vietnamese troops now turned to fighting the French. In 1954 the French were defeated in the north at Dien Bien Phu by the Viet Minh, but in the south, Vietnamese leaders did not want to be ... Ho had proved himself the most determined patriot in the nat...

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... given the state of affairs in the post World War II era. From the 1880's until World War II, France governed Vietnam as part of French Indochina under the control of Emperor Bao Dia. During World War II, with the fall of France to Germany, Vietnam came under control of the ... empire in Southeast Asia which forced them to seek assistance from their American ally. John Foster Dulles, secretary of state, and Eisenhower were convinced that if a French defeat in Southeast Asia was allowed it would begin a "domino" affect. The theory was: Vietnam was first in a row of dominos which, if knock...

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... and China, and the West, representing Democracy: France and the United States, becomes the central theme of the play "M. Butterfly." Rene Gallimard represents the French or West and Song represents China or East. When Rene Gallimard is first introduced to us in the play we already know something is wrong because he's ... making fun of him. As we go back in time to a younger point in his life we find that he is a somewhat successful diplomat of French descent stationed in China. When we are first introduced to Song Liling at the Peking Opera House, she seems to be a good actress, but som...

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... troops, and they fought a war for themselves--for democracy--not for the people of South Vietnam. Finally, the United States became too preoccupied with the French Vietnamese war, leading to other problems. The United States could have taken the correct methods in preventing communist takeover, but fecklessness scarred them. The United States ... WWII Germany had control of a puppet state of France called Vicci, this enabled Japan to build military bases along the coast of Vietnam which was a French colony. At this time, the United States only goal was to get rid of these military bases. ...

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... factors created an environment where all communist movements were viewed with fear and hostility. More forthright American involvement was initiated in these prejudiced times, with indirect military assistance to the French in Indochina in 1950, disregarding important considerations of nationalism and anti-colonialism. America's involvement in Vietnam violated the terms of the Geneva Agreement of 1954 and American intervention was ... officially recognized the new state, but the subsequent inability of the Vietminh and France to reach satisfactory political and economic agreements led t...

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... Dai went into exile in Hong Kong in March, 1946. After signing an accord recognising Vietnamese national unity within the French Union, he was allowed to return in June, 1948. The following year the French installed Bao Dai as Head of State. France refused to recognise the Democratic Republic of Vietnam that had been declared ... by Ho Chi Minh and fighting soon broke out between the Vietminh and the French troops. At first, the Vietminh under General Vo Nguyen Giap, had great difficulty in coping with the better trained and equipped French forces. The situation improved in 1949 after Ma...

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... relationships amongst each other. The outcome of each revolution, has effected the style and manor of the next revolution there after in the world. The French Revolution, opened up peoples minds to enlightenment, and World War I was the first to have battles of modern warfare. The Vietnam Revolution, also ... Then in 1930, a Vietnamese man by the name of Ho Chi Minh and his followers organized the Indochinese Communist Party, which opposed to the French Rule. The Indochinese Communist Party, which was later called the Vietnamese Communist Party, began to grow stronger and by 1945 the grou...

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... out the missiles then Am. Will never invade Cuba. EARLY AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT • Background- During WWII when Hitler was in Vietnam. He set up a puppet govt. which gave them French Indo China. French Indo China and Japanese collaborated against the US. US wanted to kick out fascist and supported a man trying to do this already. Hi name was Ho Chi Minh. He ... declared independence for Vietnam. After WWII the am. Who assisted him He was a communist which was a problem. He wanted to get control of Vietnam. • Supporting the French- France wanted to take power back and the US backs France...

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... an intense patriotism. He often attended funeral services with his parents for martyrs killed during the war of resistance with the French. In 1911 Thanh began employment as a cook on a French steamship named La Touché Treville, and later worked in London and Paris. Following World War I Nguyen Tat Thanh ... nickname second well known after Ho Chi Minh. Thanh dropped the name Nguyen Ai Quoc after betraying Phan Boi Chau's whereabouts to the French authorities for $10,000. Phan Boi Chau was the most well known Vietnamese activist at the early half of 1900's who peacefully struggled for i...

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... having been somewhere else. We had an interest in the affairs of other countries and they had an interest in Vietnam - so we were there. The French, being the great arbiters of civilization were there to make the Vietnamese more like them - more civilized. They were also there to plunder the natural resources, ... but this was not an up front issue. When the French needed help in subduing the Vietnamese, America was there, but not really there. Early American involvement in Vietnam was cautious at best. They supplied the ... and South Vietnam are at war. North Vietnam is ruled by the Ch...

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... Russia think they were weaker. From 1946 ahead the Vietminh organisation set-up and was led by, communist Ho Chi Minh. He fought seriously with the French. They fought with far more primitive weapons than the French who used modern powerful weapons supplied by the US. But since Vietminh were poor on the subject "technology" they made up with ferocity, anger, patriotism ... and tactics. They fought using Guerrilla techniques and gave them major advantage to the Vietminh. The US was not actually into the war they were just supplying the French. The French primarily fought to preserve thei...

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... States got involved. Vietnam was part of Indochina which also includes Cambodia and Laos. These countries were under French colonial rule. Wanting their freedom and independence from the French, the Vietnam communist-nationalist, better known as the Vietminh, rebelled and fought back. The French were losing and were not able to control the communist North Vietnamese from invading South Vietnam. The United States ... originally tried to help the French by giving them financial aid to fight off the communist attackers. There was a meeting between the major powers at the time to try and co...

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... then, after 1945, to prevent France from reestablishing its former colonial mastery over Vietnam and the rest of Indochina. Harry S. Truman and other American leaders, having no sympathy for French colonialism, favored Vietnamese independence. But expanding communist control of Eastern Europe and the triumph of the communists in China's civil was made France's war against Ho seem an anticommunist ... rather than a colonialist effort. When France agreed to a quansi-independent Vietnam under Emperor Bao Dai as an alternative to Ho's DRV, the United States decided to support the French posi...

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... Vietnamese Forces, led by Ho Chi Minh. Although the U.S.A. played a major part in opposing the Vietcong, this was just one significant part a larger conflict which had it's origins in the French colonization of South-East Asia in the late 19th century. At this time, France's colonial ambitions led it to take over Vietnam and some of it's neighboring countries - Laos and ... , and during the Second World War he formed an independence movement called the Vietminh. After WWII, the Vietminh wanted Vietnam as an independent country and began a campaign to remove the French. Eventually this le...

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... were fighting to retain control of their Indochina, colony, including Laos and Cambodia as well as the Vietnam." French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954 after Vietnam army defeated them; French were compelled to accede to the creation of a communist north and left a non-communist entity South of that line. The United States refused to accept the arrangements. The administrations of ... President Dwight D. Eisenhower, instead of building a nation from Political entity that was South Vietnam by making a government, taking control of the French, dispatching military advisers to train a South ...

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... effects were revealed. The Vietnam War has its place in history; the purpose and reasoning many will never know. The Vietnam conflict began in the late 19th century when the French conquered Vietnam. For the next forty years, Vietnam would not see peace. The League for the Independence of Vietnam, the Viet Minh, was formed in 1941 against the ... French. In 1945, Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam independent. The French fought back and finally, surrendered. Soon later, there was a conference held in Geneva to divide Vietnam using the 17th parallel. The north was supported with ... . Vietna...

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... by the Soviets. In June 1961 Premier Khrushchev threatened to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, which he said would end the four-power agreements guaranteeing American, British, and French rights to West Berlin. These three countries told Khrushchev that NO treaty could abridge their obligations and responsibilities, also their rights in West Berlin. East Germans, scared by Khrushchev's announcement ... meet in Berlin was to stop the blockage of routes for east Berliners to escape to West Berlin. Vietnam 1961-1963: In 1951 Kennedy visited French Indochina (Southeast Asia). T...

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... the lives of most Americans. Unfortunately Vietnam has historically been under attack or control from outside countries, and such was the case at the end of World War 2, when the French refused to leave. However, the people would not stand for this, and the Vietminh, led by Ho Chi Mon, declared themselves free from ... . With two headstrong countries there was no other alternative but to fight for the control, and by 1954 the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu. After the French were defeated The Geneva Accords was called to decide who would govern the country. Here it was decided that...

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... opinion about the type of government Vietnam should have. To find out why the war broke out you will have to go back to the 1750's. This is where the French started their so called protectorate state of Vietnam. For many years the people of Vietnam protested but could not organize into a force powerful enough to resist the ... French. Then in 1946 a communist educated individual called Ho Chi Minh organized the people of North Vietnam and drove out the French rulers in a war that took eight years. During peace settlements in Geneva they allowed North and South Vietnam to become ... afr...

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... injured. (Vietnam War Statistics). Ho Chi Minh's goal was to establish the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and to rid Vietnam of French and Japanese occupiers. The French were not willing to give up their colonies easily. This started a war between the French and Vietnamese. For years, Ho Chi Minh tried to get the U.S to help him but the U.S stood strong with its Cold ... ...

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... they knew the outcome would be to devastating but used allied countries to fight between themselves, for example; The Vietnam War. Before World War II Vietnam was part of the French Empire and after the war were given control of the Southern Vietnam while the Chinese were given the Northern Vietnam. The Chinese pulled out from North Vietnam and the ... French now wanted to take the North Vietnam and quickly were defeated in 1946. In 1954 the French was eliminated for good in Vietnam. The World's powers sat a Geneva Conference to decide the state of Vietnam and the country was ... ...

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