The Viet Minh (an abbreviation of "Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi" or "League for Independence of Vietnam") under the political leadership of a man best known by 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). ... Ho Chi Minh instituted a single party system in the North for his Workers' party (Dang Lao Dong). ... Even so, Ho Chi Minh had widespread support, even arming the ethnic minorities in North Vietnam including the Montagnard tribes. In the sou...

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"Australians were supportive of Menzies Governments' decision to send troops to Vietnam in support of President Diem's Resistance of Ho Chi Ming. To what extent is this true?" The Vietnam War was fought to support our alliance with the US and in the effort to stop the spread of communism. The war l...

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War is the part of the human condition that inflicts the most pain on mankind. The United States has dealt with its fair share of war, and in the past, many of America's wars have been justifiable on the grounds of self-defense, but today that has changed. America's wars in the modern era don't b...

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