French Indochina

The defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu was a turning point in the First Indochina War but also in the how the world viewed the newly victorious Vietminh. The French retreated to their urban strongholds of Saigon and Hanoi awaiting the result of the upcoming Geneva Conference. This set piece battle was to be the opportunity for the United States equipped and funded French Expeditionary Corps to defeat the lightly equipped and trained Vietminh force on a battlefield of their choice. The battle…

There was the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, which was in the North and the Republic of Viet Nam in the south. The Geneva Accords was an agreement to end the First Indochina War and very significant since it meant that it was the end of French influence in the Southeast Asia. The country was then, later reunited and was renamed to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Vietnam is a law-governed state with a political system established along with the Democratic…

In 1945, Indochina was taken back by Japan. One reason France started imperialism in Africa was to regain power that had been lost during the Napoleonic Wars and the Seven Years Wars. After the Napoleonic Wars, France had lost a lot of power during the meeting of the Congress of Vienna. France’s motivation for imperialism in Africa was to strengthen the French economy. They also wanted to gain more land that had been lost. This would help the French pay their indemnity to Prussia…

In the chapter titled ‘See No Evil: Choosing Not to Look at the War in Vietnam’, Loewen’s main point is to look into how and why the Vietnam War has been ignored in modern day education, and how this has left our young students completely in the dark about the events of the Vietnam War. In order to this point, Loewen highlights the differences in coverage in textbooks of the Vietnam War in comparison to smaller wars, as well as how these textbooks represent or gloss over events that occurred…

In the world, there are many conflicts between man and the law. Within the written law, there are restrictions on the people as well as war and power. In many situations, war could be considered a good thing, promoting peace in the rivals’ nation in hopes of becoming stronger and more powerful, but Napoleon Bonaparte disagrees with the idea. He once said, “If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin pricks that precede cannon shots.” This is influencing the idea that war and other battles…

Norman Rockwell (1946-1959) The illustrations of Norman Rockwell tell the story of the average American after World War Two. As a result of the Baby Boom, the families were very large, consisting of three to four children (Slide 2). The bigger families led to more chaos and craziness within the household. The mother could finally catch a break once the school bus came to pick up the children (Slide 18). Rockwell also shows that this era was a time of dating and dreaming about finding the right…

‘France’s problems during the War in Indochina were more political than military.’ How far do you agree? Most probably it would wrong start if we approach the war between France and Vietnam as the consequences of two single opposed interests. At some point, you would agree with me the war between these two sides was the result of two contradictious ideology such as capitalism and communism which at some point increased the scope of war…

crossing of 600,000 Vietnamese refugees. He was later recognized for this and awarded by the vietnamese government. This mission was called the Passage to Freedom. On the ship he served as a doctor and he also was able to translate a little bit of French. Later he became in charge of the building and maintaining refugee camps in Haiphong. He was in charge of this till 1955 when the city was overrun.(Dooley, Thomas A. The Night) Thomas Dooley would write about his experiences so that people in…

The Latehomecomer: a Hmong Family Memoir, by Kao Kalia Yang, offers a first-hand account of the trials and tribulations of a family of Hmong, an ethic group from Southeast Asia who are little known by the outside world. The Hmong fought alongside the United States during the Vietnam war, but were left to fend for themselves after the American withdrawal in 1975. In the aftermath, the Hmong saw the devastation of their traditional towns and villages by America’s enemies, among them the Pathet Lao…

A song written by the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, titled “Ohio,” tells the story of Kent State and embodied the feeling of many of the American Youth. The song has lyrics such as, “Gotta get down to it/Soldiers are cutting us down” and “We’re finally on our own.” The war had finally seemed to reach the home front. All of these events, and others, worked together to build resistance against the Vietnam War in the public’s eye. The Soldiers and What They had to Endure: There is no single…