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21 Cards in this Set
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Introduction
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International Interference
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Themes
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1- Vietnamese Nationalism/Imperialism
2- Ideology 3- Cold War 4- Vietnamese Politics 5- American Politics |
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Vietnamese Nationalism/Imperialism- Vietminh
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Vietminh kicked out French & Japanese
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Vietnamese Nationalism/Imperialism- Chinese
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Chinese occupied 221 BC 1789
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Vietnamese Nationalism/Imperialism- French
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Dien Bien Phi: Defeat against French
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Vietnamese Nationalism/Imperialism- Historiography
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The US was fighting a “long history of uncompromising nationalism” MaClear
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Ideology- US's promise
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US first supported independence, but then wanted to help anti-communist French
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Ideology- Fear
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Dulle’s Secretary of State- Domino Theory
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Ideology- Threat of Communism
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Exaggerated threat of communism rooting in South-East Asia- thought it could reach Hawaii & then West Coast
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Ideology- Ho Chi Mihn Historiography
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Ho Chi Minh was “first and foremost a Vietnamese nationalist.” MaClear
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Cold War- Ho Chi Mihn
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Ho Chi Minh studied at the “Stalin School for Toilers of the East” where he acquired many of his communist ideals
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Cold War- SEATO
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SEATO was to protect from turning communist, but it had no support
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Cold War- Foreign Support
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Russia & China communists: Ho Chi Minh expected US support
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Vietnamese Political Issues- Ho Chi Minh
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1941 Ho Chi Minh’s League for Independence of Vietnam
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Vietnamese Political Issues- Corruption
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Diem Corrupt & Refused to hold the unifying elections of 1956
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Vietnamese Political Issue- Choas
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Assassination of Diem in 1963
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American Political Issues- Geneva
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1954 US allowed the Geneva Agreement to Escalate Conflict
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American Political Issues- "Advisors"
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US ‘advisors’
1961: 685, 1963: 16,000 |
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American Political Issues- Johnson
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Gulf of Tongking
Johnsons’s excuse to start war |
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American Political Issues- Johnson Historiography
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Johnson ”had to hold Vietnam to hold the white house” Maclear
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Clever Twist
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“While the United States was pouring money into Vietnam, the USSR was devoting steadily larger sums to its nuclear forces”—P. Kennedys
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