L97 IAS 3680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eastern Bloc, Counter-Revolutionary, Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution
21 Dec 2020
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Lecture 09 - vietnam: origins & johnson"s war, 1945-1968 (cnn video) France lost its hold on vietnam due to an uprising. The new regime in vietnam was nationalist and communist. International peace conference temporarily divided vietnam into north and. South, and they were going to have elections, which the us opposed. The elections would not be free in the north. Even with free elections, the communists would dominate and gain control. Washington saw him as an instrument of the communist bloc. By 1955, close to 1 million people had fled to the south. Led by a ruthless and autocratic anti-communist called diem. Communists created a resistance group called the viet kong to unite. Vietnam under ho chi min which was encouraged by moscow. Kennedy was determined to protect liberty and democracy. He set out to show strength in asia. The loss of vietnam would trigger the loss of southeast asia and even.
