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Flashcards by sagar.joban, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by sagar.joban
about 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Vietnam - Pre WW2 | France ruled Indochina (Vietnam) |
| Vietnam - 1942 to 1945 | 1942 - Japan invaded and occupied French Indochina. They treated the Vietnamese brutally. Ho Chi Minh led a strong Communist resistance - by 1945, Japan was defeated. |
| Vietnam - The First Indochina War | French returned and reoccupied Vietnam. However, Ho Chi Minh and his supporters continued to fight for independence. French defeated at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Signed a peace treaty - French removed and Vietnam divided along the 17th parallel. |
| Why did USA send troops to Vietnam? | Eisenhower was worried of Communism - domino theory. He thought that Ho Chi Minh would win the national election so helped Ngo Dinh Diem (anti-Communist) set up Republic of South Vietnam. |
| Diem's Reign | Diem's Government was corrupt - he put relatives in power and refused to hold elections. Treated Vietnamese peasants badly - the peasants then began to support the Vietcong (National Liberation Front for South Vietnam). The Vietcong began a guerrilla war against the South Vietnamese government. |
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