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Chapter 23.1 Background to Conflict in Vietnam

Chapter 23.1 Background to Conflict in Vietnam. Before the US got involved in Vietnam China and France both fought for it. Chinese Occupation of Vietnam. 200 BC – 939 AD China controlled Vietnam Wanted their farm land Could grow lots of rice!!!. Vietnam Rice Paddies. French Colonization.

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Chapter 23.1 Background to Conflict in Vietnam

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  1. Chapter 23.1 Background to Conflict in Vietnam • Before the US got involved in Vietnam • China and France both fought for it.

  2. Chinese Occupation of Vietnam • 200 BC – 939 AD • China controlled Vietnam • Wanted their farm land • Could grow lots of rice!!!

  3. Vietnam Rice Paddies

  4. French Colonization • 1883 • France takes control of Vietnam • Expanded there during European Imperialism • Combined 3 countries to become French Indochina • Vietnam • Laos • Cambodia

  5. Vietnamese Independence • Though controlled by French • Vietnam hated France! • Wanted independence! • 1920s • Ho Chi Minh • Vietnamese leader who is willing to fight for independence • Problem • He’s Communist!!

  6. Ho Chi Minh has a Chance • 1940’s • Ho Chi Minh wanted to start a revolution against French! • Didn’t have too! • Japanese had expanded into Vietnam during WWII! • Defeated French for them! • 1945 • Japanese surrender in WWII • Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam an independent nation!

  7. Small Problem….. • 1946 • France doesn’t want to give Vietnam up! • They want their rice! • Have USA political support. • Ho Chi Minh starts his resistance movement called Vietminh. • Based on Communist principles. • This is bad…

  8. What should the USA do? • Nothing….so things change in Asia. • 1949 • Mao makes China Communist! • 1950 • USA invades N. Korea to stop Communism from spreading! • Communism already spread to • Indonesia • Philippines

  9. America has to make a choice. • 1954 • USA is fighting to a stalemate in Korea • Cease fire called at 38th Parallel • France is losing to Ho Chi Minh’s Vietminh • Just lost major battle at Dien Bien Phu • City in northern Vietnam • May 7, 1954 • France surrenders to Vietminh • Domino theory • If one country falls to Communism, they will all fall like dominoes! • What do we do???

  10. The Geneva Convention • May 8, 1945 • International conference called for in Geneva, Switzerland • Need to settle conflict in Indochina. • Meeting led by China, USSR, USA, and Great Britain • China, USSR • Wanted Communism to rule. • USA, Great Britain • Wanted capitalism to rule. • What do you think happens?

  11. Vietnam, 1956Divided at 17th Parallel

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