... Dien Bien Phu in 1964, having a momentous impact on the conflict in Indo-China. The victory was disastrous for international and domestic concerns, signalling the end of French colonial influence in Indochina. It also had a major but not decisive impact on the 1952 Geneva conference, clearing the way for the division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel; which ... of the National liberation front against the corrupt Diem regime, inevitably catalysing the 2nd Indochina war into play. In March 1954, Giap began a siege of the French base at Dien Bien Phu, killing 2200 and imprisoning 6500, ...

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... within a new 'commonwealth', they found themselves confronted by armed and aggressive resistance movements, many of whom had gained skill and experience in fighting the Japanese. Such was the case in French Indochina where the Administration, having declared for Vichy, was left in place by the Japanese until 9 March 1945. The Viet Minh (an abbreviation of "Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh ... 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 Frenc...

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... within a new 'commonwealth', they found themselves confronted by armed and aggressive resistance movements, many of whom had gained skill and experience in fighting the Japanese. Such was the case in French Indochina where the Administration, having declared for Vichy, was left in place by the Japanese until 9 March 1945. The Viet Minh (an abbreviation of "Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh ... 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 Frenc...

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... his country- and in doing so, his tactics were evidently dynamic and versatile; skillfully omitting rigid principles. Minh ardently argued the importance of communism to win the battle against the French imperialists, "In order to carry out this task, the Party must uncompromisingly fight sectarianism and organize the systematic study of Marxism-Leninism in order to raise the cultural and political ... levels of the Party members It must maintain close contact with the French Communist Party." (www.h-net.msu.edu~/diplo/Ho.htm). William Duiker, Minh's biographer, a man who served in Saig...

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... nationalism and resistance. However, this became a reality because of Ho Chi Minh and The Viet Minh's nationalistic ways and determination to overthrow the French and gain Vietnam's independence. At the end of the Second World War, France lied in ruins and Vietnam was left with no governmental occupation ... by Ho showed the Vietnamese people that they were no longer going to stand for this type of treatment and how the overthrowing of the French will bring about independence this brought out peoples feelings of national pride and willingness to help in a resistance movement. "They have...

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... national security. The leaders of the time realised that in order to survive a communist onslaught, we would have to put our trust in "great and powerful friends" Vietnam had been a French colony since 1858, but when they were driven out during World War II, Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh, a nationalist group with communist ideals formed a government in Hanoi, situated in the northern ... unwilling to relinquish their colony, and so they went to war with the Vietminh forces that were supported by communist China. When the French were crushed at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, they were forced into...

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... a territorial dispute commenced. The Israelis further pressed the issue by attacking through the Sinai Desert to take control of the Suez Canal in 1956 as a front for the English and French establishment on the canal until international pressures forced their withdrawal, but Israel maintained control over the Gaza Strip. This action paved the road for future aggression initiated from Egypt, Syria ... , Jordan, and Iraq in 1967 during a six-day conflict, but superior Israeli airmen as well as French and American planes were sufficient enough to overcome the attacks. The Arab-Israeli confl...

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... countries when they are attempting to achieve the same goal as us. But when it came to helping North Vietnam we turned our backs on them and sided with the french, their oppressors and south Vietnam. Which was surprising to me because America as a nation experienced the same hardships of oppression from Great Britain when we first came to be. In ... ...

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