... his last nom de guerre, Ho Chi Minh, and the military guidance of the able Vo Nguyen Giap, conducted a resistance movement against the Japanese from bases in Tonkin (in northern Vietnam). (Tonkin Annam and Cochin China were regions in the North, Central and South Vietnam. They were ... French territorial divisions but had no significance other than that.)The capitulation of the Japanese in August 1945 saw the Viet Minh seize control of Hanoi and dedare an independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN). In Saigon, the ... Provisional Executive Committee of South Vietnam, dominated by ...

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... his last nom de guerre, Ho Chi Minh, and the military guidance of the able Vo Nguyen Giap, conducted a resistance movement against the Japanese from bases in Tonkin (in northern Vietnam). (Tonkin Annam and Cochin China were regions in the North, Central and South Vietnam. They were ... French territorial divisions but had no significance other than that.)The capitulation of the Japanese in August 1945 saw the Viet Minh seize control of Hanoi and dedare an independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN). In Saigon, the ... Provisional Executive Committee of South Vietnam, dominated by ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of military material had ended. Factories were stripped of equipment to provide for reparations to the countries that had been victims of Japanese aggression. It were the bitter memories of the period of Occupation, led by the US, that the Japanese later found hard to forget. Japan became a US ally later on during the Cold War only when the Occupation ended and ... 's policy in Southeast Asia revolved around economic diplomacy, where relations were low-key and focused more on economics than politics. Therefore it was after 1970s, with the Americans withdrawing from Vietnam, that the Japa...

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... an imaginary line chosen by the United States military following World War II. It was a boundary set up as a surrender of the Japanese to the Americans on the south side, and the north side of the boundary as the Japanese surrender to Soviet Union. The United States entered the war because they feared it turning into a bigger war involving the takeover of communists ... ...

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... criticism from all over the world, some critics attacked the depiction of the enemy as being racist and one-sided, claiming the film pictured all non-Americans only as vile, depraved and sadistic, like the Japanese of Hollywood World War II films. The Deer Hunter's most renowned sequence, the infamous game of Russian Roulette (which was principally used as a metaphor for war ... everyday lives ("We got out and came back like everyone else who had been through a war: changed, enlarged - and some things are expensive to say - incomplete" Dispatches) Steven represents the Americans who cam...

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... national territory from foreign annexation or intrusion; (b) To regain what had been lost through foreign interventions; (c) To repel from her borders any threatening or hostile military presence, be it Russian, Japanese, America or any of her power; and (d) To regain for China the status of a world power commensurate with the greatness of her civilisation. China is determined to regain its rightful ... nations of south-east Asia would fall, like dominoes, one by one to communist insurgency. Once USA became deeply involved in Vietnam, it became a matter of national pride to the American...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate