Discuss to what extent to which Nationalism contributed to the expulsion of the French from Indo-China in 1954. You must use evidence to support your view On 7 May 1954‚ the French Far East Expeditionary Corps were routed at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. More than 11‚000 French troops were taken prisoner. One tenth of the French Union’s military strength in Indo-China had been wiped out. The Viet Minh had dispatched their colonial rulers. The battle had ended in decisive victory
Premium Vietnam Vietnam War French Indochina
A critical analysis of the operational performance of General Vo Nguyen Giap 1940–1954 Major Stuart Pascoe‚ Australian Army The struggle must build‚ however slowly. The way to win is by small defeats‚ one after another until the coup de grace.1 Vo Nguyen Giap Introduction 1. General Vo Nguyen Giap has been described as one of the most successful Generals of the 20th century‚2 and his ultimate success certainly supports this. His campaign began with no more than academic support for a communist
Premium Vietnam War First Indochina War Ho Chi Minh
This allowed America’s diverse population to have equal access to quality learning. The 1954 Supreme Court case of Brown vs Board of Education ruled that racially segregated schools were unequal. Prior to this ruling‚ schools had separate facilities for the different races‚ as dictated by the Jim Crow laws. Today‚ as a positive result of the
Premium United States United States Declaration of Independence President of the United States
INDIA’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SINCE 1947 PROJECT WORK AGRICUTURE AND FOOD MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY: B.A. (H) Economics II nd Year Avinash Pandey | 0187 | Surbhi Singh | 0191 | Ashima Sahni | 0202 | Pankhuri Dave | 0203 | Ritika Narula | 0204 | Siddharth Goel | 0205 | Pritish Bhattacharya | 0209 | Monika | 0210 | Shubhangini Aggarwal | 0212 | Deepak | 0213 |
Free Agriculture
McCarthy hearing are similar to the Salem witch hunt because the accuser exaggerates and fabricates evidence‚ the accused are used as scapegoats for society’s problems‚ and McCarthy and the Salem girls use the accusations to obtain power. In neither McCarthyism nor the Salem witch trials were real evidence put forth to prove the guilt of the accused. Instead‚ people readily agreed with the accusers‚ having to assume that they were telling the truth. In the fifties‚ with the war going badly in Korea‚ the
Premium Salem witch trials Witchcraft The Crucible
The playwright of ’An Inspector Calls’ John Boynton Priestly was alive between 1894 and 1984‚ in this time he served in the First World War where in 1916 he was badly injured. It wasn’t until the end of the Second World War in 1945 that he wrote ’An Inspector Calls’; he chose to set the play thirty years in the past before either wars had happened- in 1912. Priestly was a renowned socialist and highly respected in his time- with his own radio show which around twenty million tuned into each week
Premium An Inspector Calls J. B. Priestley The Play
Why relations between the USA and Soviet Union changed in the years 1943-1947 Relations between the USA and Soviet Union underwent dramatic change in the years 1943-47. This is clearly demonstrated by the fact that they had gone from allies during the Second World War to a rivalry which went onto dominate the latter part of the twentieth century and world politics‚ in a period known as the Cold War. This essay therefore hopes to analyse the key reasons that led to this breakdown in relations by
Premium Cold War World War II Soviet Union
Representation of Partition of India in Sunlight on a Broken Column‚ Ice-Candy Man‚ and 1947 Earth. Partition of India‚ which is almost overlooked in traditional historiography with India’s Independence and Birth of Pakistan‚ led to one of the largest and bloodiest migrations in the history of the world. Sunlight on a Broken Column‚ Ice-Candy Man and 1947 Earth are all set in the same time span and portray Partition in quite different ways. Different as in not only different from each other
Premium British Raj Partition of India India
In what ways did developments in Palestine increase hostility between Jews and Arabs‚ 1916 – 1947? There are several ways in which the developments in Palestine increased hostility between Jews and Arabs. Mainly‚ the Balfour Declaration‚ the decision of the Peel commission‚ violent actions of Arab and Jewish Military groups‚ and World War Two. All these ways are linked to one another‚ therefore dramatically increasing hostility between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration
Premium Israel Zionism
August‚ 14‚ 1947 and August‚ 15‚ 1947 the Indian partition of 1947 was created and it granted Indian its freedom from its 350 year of British ruling. After India’s freedom was granted it was divided into two states which were Dominion of Pakistan later known as Islamic republic of Pakistan and Union of India later known as Republic of India. Right after the partition of 1947‚ it declared that it was leader or King of the state to decide if the state should follow the Muslim or a Hindu religion. This
Premium Pakistan Partition of India Bangladesh