... as Indochina which included Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The French were more influential in the South rather than North Vietnam. This entailed many Southern Vietnamese to convert to Roman Catholicism and adopt French culture and language. Other Vietnamese loathed these kind of Vietnamese and could not understand what could ... talks of independence failed and the First Indochina War began. The First Indochina War lasted from 1946 to 1954. The French had regained control of the Southern half of Vietnam. The French, now backed with U.S. support, desperately tried to keep their "colonial g...

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... favor a political system patterned after those of Western Europe and the United States. THE COMING OF THE WEST 19. In 1862, Vietnamese emperor Tu Duc signed a peace treaty ceding the southern provinces to the French. A year later, the French added to their new possession, which they called Cochnichina, by establishing a protectorate over Cambodia. Twenty years later, the French resumed their expansion ... . Tariff policies favored the importation of cheap machine-made goods from France, a practice that starved out the traditional handicraft industry in Vietnamese villages. 26. The French...

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