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Ho Chi Minh Department Of State
1,427 wordsDescribe and assess the role of the USA in Indo-China in the period 1945 - 1954 In 1943 President Roosevelt suggested that Indochina come under the control of four powers after the war, proposing that the eventual independence of the Indochinese might follow in twenty to thirty years time. No one knew whether the policy would require American troops, but America was firm on the fact that independence could not be taken by the Vietnamese, but would be granted to the Vietnamese by the Great Powers...
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Spread Of Communism Domino Theory
1,306 words... ly a Communist, but that he put nationalism first and had no direct ties to the Soviet Union. He was not a tool of Communism, in fact, Ho was relentless in his pursuit of direct ties to the United States. Also, the Soviet Union was more anxious to pursue dtente and had no special concern for Southeast Asia. The Soviet Union would not even recognize the freedom and independence of Vietnam. They only recognized the state of Vietnam after the Chinese recognized them when the People's Republic o...
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Dien Bien Phu Ho Chi Minh
1,312 wordsAs the founder of the Indo-Chinese Communist party in 1930 and president of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969, Ho Chi Minh led the longest and most costly 20 th-century war against colonialism. His whole adult life was devoted to ending French and later, American domination of Vietnam. His goals were achieved in 1975, six years after his death, when the last Americans left South Vietnam. The Vietnamese communist has always claimed that Ho Chi Minh was the hero who gained independence for Vietnam f...
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Ho Chi Minh Bao Dai
1,359 words1945 Ho Chi Minh and his People's Congress create the National Liberation Committee of Vietnam to form a provisional government following the surrender of Japan to Allied forces and Japan transfers all power to Ho's Vietminh. President Roosevelt dies Making good on his threat to unleash .".. a rain of ruin the like of which has never been seen on earth... , " President Harry Truman authorizes the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan -- one on Hiroshima on August 6, and a second on Nagasaki on A...
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Attempts At Peace United States Japan
285 wordsThe war between Japan and the United States did not have to happen. It could have been prevented by diplomacy in 1941. The United States was Japans principle supplier of scrap metal and oil. In 1940 Japan signed a treaty with the government of France for the establishment of airbases in French Indochina. A proposal was made for a German/Italian/Japanese alliance against America. When America found out about that they were not happy, so they decided to take action. On September 26, America put an...
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Battle Of Britain Lend Lease
2,785 words... eral Maxime Weygand, had nothing with which to screen it or Paris on the north and west. On June 17, Marshal Henri Philippe P'email, a World War I hero who had become premier the day before, asked for an armistice. The armistice was signed on June 25 on terms that gave Germany control of northern France and the Atlantic coast. P'email then set up a capital at Vichy in the unoccupied southeast. The Battle of Britain In the summer of 1940, Hitler dominated Europe from the North Cape to the Pyr...
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Spread Of Communism Republic Of Vietnam
569 wordsThe Cold War in Asia 1945 - 1980 Asia was the second battleground of the cold war. To Marxist ideology, Asia was not a good place for a communist revolution as it was not an industrialised country with a large proletariat. However, neither was russia. The Chinese Civil War was probably the first sign of the cold war coming to asia. The communist forces, led by Mao had the support of the rural population while the nationalist forces tried to cling on to their decaying powerball. The civil war act...
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Lyndon B Johnson Antiwar Movement
2,154 wordsVietnam War vs. Great Society Anonymous: [Johnson] had miscalculated: Even the richest and most powerful nation in the world could not do it all (q. in Turbulent Years: The 60 s 36). Lyndon Baines Johnson is a president torn to pieces by war. He glows in the passage of bills benefiting American society. He is someone who has suffered through an entire generation of rebellious teens. What impact did Lbj's foreign policies concerning Vietnam War have on American society? The Vietnam War really isn...
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00 A M Atomic Bomb
1,365 wordsA bright light filled the plane. We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud... boiling up, mushrooming. (web) What could cause such devastation? Fat Man and Little Boy, the bombs that ended World War II and brought the world into the nuclear age. In September 1940, after the fall of France, Hitler and Mussolini made an alliance with Japan. The Tripartite Pact provided the right of entry of Japanese troops into Indochina. Japan quietly extended her influence in t...
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Anti War Movement Vietnam War
871 wordsLessons of the Vietnam War? American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged in another war, against a much less resilient enemy, the American people. Here, the prospects for sucess are much greater. The battleground is ideological, not military. At stake are the lessons to be drawn from the American war in Indochina; the outcome will determine the course and character of new imperial ventures. ? (Noam Chomsky, 1975) Quite often the lesson of hist...
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Elaine Father Elaine France
298 wordsDuring the period between World War I and World War II, France held control of the territory of Indochina. The film Indochina grasps the essence of the violent and bloody uprising in the imperialistic France territory. The characters are used as a device to symbolize the politics during this time period. The clash in views of Old France and New Vietnam, communism and imperialism, are seen through the characters of Elaine? s father, Camille, Than and Guy. Elaine? s father was born and raised in F...
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Dien Bien Phu Ho Chi Minh
3,784 wordsBy the late 1960 s, the conflict in Vietnam had escalated to a limited war involving approximately half a million military personnel and billions of dollars a year. The American presence in Indochina had steadily increased from the Truman administration to Kennedys decision to initiate greater American involvement in 1961. The peak of 543, 000 American forces was achieved in 1969 and was the culmination of US aid to the nation of South Vietnam. The US policy since the beginning of the Cold War h...
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