Throughout history people and countries have felt the need to rule over one another with the purpose of demonstrating their power and accumulating wealth. As powerful countries started to emerge this process was called creating colonies, which were meant to improve the conquered people’s land and develop them into individuals and countries fit for the modern world. However, the majority of the time it was just taking advantage of the local people to earn more wealth for the nations which inhabited the colonies. This slowly lead to great amounts of tension between the conquerors and the the conquered. This took place in Vietnam and Indonesia as the French conquered Vietnam and the Dutch conquered Indonesia turning them both into very profitable
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Ho Chi Minh was educated in France where he quickly found a blueprint for what he imagined Vietnam to be in communism and Leninist ideals (Emergence of SE Asia 340-341). Differently Sukarno was educated in Indonesia and formed his socialist blueprint of Indonesia through his own desire to learn about the countries of the West (Lecture Nov.20). However even though both leaders had different blue prints for their countries they came to power in very similar ways. Ho Chi Minh hadn’t been in Vietnam for years because of the risk of being arrested for his communist views and Sukarno had been imprisoned in Indonesia do to what he was teaching. During both leader’s absences from power, opportunities to unite their nationalist ideals arose when the opposing parties in their respective countries acted too soon on their Independence dreams. Ho Chi Minh was able to help create the Indochina Communist Party (ICP) which gained a lot of support from peasants and the poor even though he wasn’t even in Vietnam to lead it (Emergence of SE Asia 342-343). Sukarno joined the Partai Indonesia which was a part of his PNI party that split off when he was in jail. In the Partia Indonesia he bumped heads with another nationalist leader Mohammad Hatta who didn’t believe Indonesian independence could be gained in their life times, but Sukarno did not …show more content…
In Vietnam Ho Chi Minh had not been in the country since he had left for his schooling in France but had gained a lot of knowledge and was just waiting for the opportunity to come back and unite Vietnam. He had taught many students from Vietnam as he was traveling about his communist ideas and had a strong network of followers back in Vietnam. These students and other communist formed underground organizations back in Vietnam that slowly recruited followers and prepared for an uprising. Part of this involved gaining the loyalty of the peasants who at the time were suffering greatly at the hands of the French cash croppers and were looking for any group that would be able to help them improve their quality of life (Lecture Oct. 20). With the communist party in Vietnam gaining the loyalty of the peasants and gathering a large following while operating underground Vietnam was ready for Ho Chi Minh’s arrival. Compared to this, Indonesia had their nationalist leader Sukarno in the country but had to deal with more drama between leaders and problems with the Dutch. After being arrested and having some disagreement with other leaders about how to implement the nationalist movement Sukarno joined the Partia Indonesia which he promoted and recruited new members until he was exiled for nationalist speeches in
Ho Chi Minh was educated in France where he quickly found a blueprint for what he imagined Vietnam to be in communism and Leninist ideals (Emergence of SE Asia 340-341). Differently Sukarno was educated in Indonesia and formed his socialist blueprint of Indonesia through his own desire to learn about the countries of the West (Lecture Nov.20). However even though both leaders had different blue prints for their countries they came to power in very similar ways. Ho Chi Minh hadn’t been in Vietnam for years because of the risk of being arrested for his communist views and Sukarno had been imprisoned in Indonesia do to what he was teaching. During both leader’s absences from power, opportunities to unite their nationalist ideals arose when the opposing parties in their respective countries acted too soon on their Independence dreams. Ho Chi Minh was able to help create the Indochina Communist Party (ICP) which gained a lot of support from peasants and the poor even though he wasn’t even in Vietnam to lead it (Emergence of SE Asia 342-343). Sukarno joined the Partai Indonesia which was a part of his PNI party that split off when he was in jail. In the Partia Indonesia he bumped heads with another nationalist leader Mohammad Hatta who didn’t believe Indonesian independence could be gained in their life times, but Sukarno did not …show more content…
In Vietnam Ho Chi Minh had not been in the country since he had left for his schooling in France but had gained a lot of knowledge and was just waiting for the opportunity to come back and unite Vietnam. He had taught many students from Vietnam as he was traveling about his communist ideas and had a strong network of followers back in Vietnam. These students and other communist formed underground organizations back in Vietnam that slowly recruited followers and prepared for an uprising. Part of this involved gaining the loyalty of the peasants who at the time were suffering greatly at the hands of the French cash croppers and were looking for any group that would be able to help them improve their quality of life (Lecture Oct. 20). With the communist party in Vietnam gaining the loyalty of the peasants and gathering a large following while operating underground Vietnam was ready for Ho Chi Minh’s arrival. Compared to this, Indonesia had their nationalist leader Sukarno in the country but had to deal with more drama between leaders and problems with the Dutch. After being arrested and having some disagreement with other leaders about how to implement the nationalist movement Sukarno joined the Partia Indonesia which he promoted and recruited new members until he was exiled for nationalist speeches in