HIST 1500 Lecture Notes - Tet Offensive, Nikita Khrushchev, Henry Kissinger
29 Apr 2013
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Vietnamese managed to keep their own culture intact over the centuries. Haven"t adopted chinese language or civil organization. They kicked the chinese out for 100 years or so. 1858 napoleon 3rd sent a fleet to establish a french base in vietnam. Emperor didn"t want any vietnamese giving the french a hard time so they would leave. By the turn of the 20th century the vietnamese were becoming more and more under. The french believed in extracting all they could from a nation. Early 20th century ho chi minh studied in france. In 1918, he wrote letter to president wilson wanting the us help in getting rid of french but never got a response. He came to the conclusion that only a violent revolution would get rid of the french. It didn"t seem to him that any western power would help. Ho went back to vietnam and established indo chinese communist party. By the 40s they were making headway.
