American Studies 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Fragging, Vietnam Syndrome, Siriusxm Progress

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

Document Summary

This war threaten to tear the country a part through protests: the people in vietnam dealt with even worse. The dropping of agent orange not only affected the land physical but also had detrimental effects on the vietnamese people. Colonies were seen as essential sources of goods and services: this era seemed to come to an end after wwii. The colonizers no longer had the power to claim moral superiority over the colonies. At this time independence movements also start to rise. When woodrow wilson made his 14 point plan speech, he proclaimed that all people were entitled to self-determination: ho chi minh (1890-1969) Wanted an audience in france to talk about vietnamese independence. In 1941, he was the leader of the league for an independent vietnam. During wwii, france lost control of indochina to japan due to the fact that they were fighting germany: germany and japan were allies, instead of fighting french rule, vietnam was fighting japanese rule.