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Moving Toward Conflict

Moving Toward Conflict. Lieutenant Colonel A. Peter Dewey. Vietnam War. 60,000 Americans would die 1.5 million Vietnamese. Why Vietnam?. 1950 Post WWII France Communism?. France in Vietnam. Late 1800’s to WWII France ruled Indochina Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. French Colonists.

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Moving Toward Conflict

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  1. Moving Toward Conflict

  2. Lieutenant Colonel A. Peter Dewey

  3. Vietnam War • 60,000 Americans would die • 1.5 million Vietnamese

  4. Why Vietnam? • 1950 • Post WWII France • Communism?

  5. France in Vietnam • Late 1800’s to WWII • France ruled Indochina • Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia

  6. French Colonists • Took land from peasants • Raided rubber and rice • Jailed and restricted freedom to Vietnamese • 1930’s • uprisings

  7. Ho Chi Minh • Indochinese Communist Party founded in 1930 • Led uprisings • Condemned to death by French • Fled to Soviet Union and China

  8. 1941 • Japanese take control of Vietnam • Minh returns • Vietminh created

  9. September 2, 1945 • Ho chi Minh declared independence • Hanoi, Vietnam

  10. France • 1946 – Drove Vietminh out of the cities • Gained control of the southern half

  11. United States • 1950 • Began sending aid ($$) to France • Irony • US formerly supplied Ho Chi Minh in efforts against the Japanese! • Why aid France now???!!???

  12. Communism

  13. Ike • Continued to supply French • Domino Theory

  14. Dien Bien Phu • Vietminh drive the French out of this northern city • France taps out

  15. Geneva Accords • Divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel • Hanoi – Northern capital • Saigon – Southern capital

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