American Studies 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Army Of The Republic Of Vietnam, Guerrilla Warfare, Truman Doctrine

• School: Western University
• Department: American Studies
• Course: American Studies 1020
• Professor: Tom Cull

Document Summary

Within these movements we saw naionalisic movements of independence. Woodrow wilson 14 points (1918: naional aspiraions. Not a good war for the french: the vietminh enjoyed widespread support from the vietnamese people hard for the. 1: hell in a very small place the siege of dien bien phu. A numeric superior guerilla army against a beter trained, french army. Vietminh was able to defeat the french. Foreshadowed what was going happen when america decided to get involved in. Vietnam because just like the french, america would, despite having a war machine, would get mire down in which they would lose to guerilla warfare. The french surrender and shortly ater, they agreed to remove their troops from. Vietnam became much more than a batle for resources. Lbj (linda b. johnson) who fully brings all of america to vietnam. The vietnam quagmire: a marsh or a bog, quagmire was a metaphor for the coninue escalaion of americas involvement in the.