French Indochina

Southeast Asia is a home to a diverse set of cultures and ethnicities, ranging from Vietnamese to Filipinos to Cambodians. These various groups of people have their own unique histories, yet they have also encountered similar past experiences. The focus of this paper is on the homogenous impacts of French colonialism, the Cold War, and Communism between two groups of people, the Vietnamese and the Hmong people. The history of the Vietnamese is somewhat similar to the Hmong, such that there were two clashing forms of government that divided the groups of people internally and externally. Due to foreign occupation and interest, the existence of two different governments within each group of people created serious conflicts and ultimately, shaped the lives of the Vietnamese and the Hmong people. I. Impact of French Colonial Rule The most significant impact of the French colonial rule on the Vietnamese was Vietnam’s declaration of independence, which resulted in two different parties. After the…

. TIMELINE OF VIETNAM WAR During 1880, Vietnam is rule by the French for few decades. Then in 1940, Japan started to invade Indochina. Indochina countries are Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. But in the year of 1945, Japan was defeated by the World War II allies and starting in 1946, the Indochina war has begun. Not only that, in 1946 also, France recognize Vietnam as a free state within French Union. A negotiation between the French and Vietminh are held but the negotiation breakdown when the…

whose forces fought against the Japanese and French to gain Vietnamese independence. This group of people was communist-led but was primarily operated as a national organization (Encyclopedia). The organization was formed in China in May 1941 by Ho Chi Minh. The official Japanese name for the Vietminh is Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi. In English, this mean, League for the Independence of Vietnam. Japan occupied French Indochina during WWII. Along with fighting the French, the Vietminh started…

released an estimate that over 93% of the total population, 15 years or older, can both read and write ("Field Listing :: Literacy"). Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia that lies on the eastern border of the Indochina. The relations between Vietnam and France began as early as the 18th century. But the French officially formed French Indochina in October 1887 which included current day Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. With the French came imposition of French ideals, implantation of a French…

educated politician who was also a brilliant strategist. His communist party freed the people from French imperialism and united the country. Minh took many of his political ideas from other leaders due to his extensive traveling around the world. Minh had learned of guerilla warfare from Mao Zedong, and took ideas of a communist party from Vladimir Lenin. The communist party appealed to class struggles, as it gave more focus on the oppressed working class. The communist party of Vietnam held a…

Conventionally, Vietnam is a nation-state, and country with a rather long and complicated history, filled with varying cultural traditions and a great deal of differences between regions, and smaller states. Culturally, in a magnitude of manners, the Vietnamese people have more in common with Confucian China than Buddhist Southeast Asia. Most cultures throughout the Southeast Asian regions, appear to regard the Vietnamese people as fighters, and are not particularly fond of them despite their…

Not long after the proclamation of the Peoples Republic of Vietnam, the French intervened and stated the First Indochina War, which the French lost and was resolved by the 1954 Geneva convention that split the country into the communist, pro-China North and the democratic, pro-US South. This was to create a buffer-state, to prevent communism from engulfing all of Asia. This mix of conflicting ideologies fused more conflict which eventually exploded in 1964 when the North invaded the South and…

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a Decisive clash that took place in the first Indochina War which was a precursor to the Vietnam War. The battle was fought for a small mountain outpost on the border of Vietnam near Laos. Fighting went on for fifty seven days; it took place in late 1953 at the end of the eight year war. The Indochina War was a conflict between the French and Vietnamese. France held control of Vietnam from about 1883 to 1945 when Nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh declared…

The whole conflict in Vietnam started with France’s imperialism. The French took over Vietnam and established Indochina in the 1880s. However, the people of Vietnam wanted to be free from France, and under their communist leader Ho Chi Minh they established a military organization called Viet Minh. This organization took over the capital and declared Vietnam an independent country. Ho asked for aid from the U.S, but the U.S distrusted their communist ideals. Instead, President Truman sent aid to…

During the 1800s, France began to imperialize the region of Indochina, which consists of the countries known as Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. The wealth produced in this land was considered very valuable to the French during this time. Many nationalists throughout the Indochina region were not happy with the idea of the French being in their homeland. Ho Chi Minh, who was a strong Nationalist in Vietnam, educated in westernized ideas, and a follower of Marxist thought, formed a movement to get…