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
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The Vietnam War Vietnam is a small country to the south of China (’Vietnamese’ means "non-Chinese people of the south"). In 111 BC‚ Vietnam became part of the Chinese Empire. For the next thousand years Vietnam struggled to gain its independence from its much larger neighbour. This was achieved in 938 AD. The long period of Chinese rule had left its mark on Vietnam. The language‚ religion‚ architecture‚ system of government and most other aspects of Vietnamese life‚ reflected the influence of the
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Da Nang (Đà Nẵng) is Vietnam’s third largest city‚ and is located on the South China Sea coast‚ midway between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and the largest city of Central Vietnam. The economic powerhouse of central Vietnam‚ it combines the buzz of a bigger city with beautiful beaches and great restaurants. A lot of money has recently been poured into tree-lined boulevards‚ bridges and beachside resorts. The Song Han Bridge was built by the people of Da Nang. It is the first swing bridge to be
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Doctrine‚ the USA was not going to allow any more countries turn communist; the USA was going to “contain” the expansion of communism. The US government believed that this could be achieved by helping the South Vietnamese government resist the attacks of Ho Chi Minh’s communist North Vietnam‚ to prevent the spread of communism throughout the world. Another main reason why the US got involved in the war was because of the “Domino Theory”. President Eisenhower saw South-Asia as a row of
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SALES CONTRACT No.57/2014 Ho Chi Minh City‚ May 19th‚ 2014 The Seller: Dalat Agriculture and Forestry JSC‚ Vietnam Address: 39 Phu Dong Thien Vuong Street‚ Ward 8‚ Da Lat City‚ Lam Dong‚ Vietnam Telephone: +84-63-656565 Fax: +84-63-665442 Email: info@dalatgap.com Represented by: Mr. Tran Thanh Sang Position: Director The Buyer: Shoei Foods Corporation Address: Shoei Bldg‚ 5-7‚ Akihabara‚ Taito-ku‚Tokyo‚ Japan Telephone: +81-33-2342345 Fax: +81-33-2672634 Email: shoeifoods@Shoeifoods
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amplified its energy base all through Vietnam. At the point when Japan surrendered toward the end of World War II in 1945‚ Ho Chi Minh’s powers took the capital of Hanoi and announced Vietnam to be an autonomous nation‚ the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. France declined to perceive Ho’s assertion and came back to Vietnam‚ driving Ho’s Communist strengths into northern Vietnam. Ho claimed for help from the United States‚ but since the United States was involved in the raising Cold War with the Communist
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The Impact of French in Indochina The Impact the French had on Indochina was something no one was about to forget soon. It took France about 35 years to complete its takeover of Indochina. In 1858‚ the French captured Tourane (Da Nang). The region of Saigon was taken over 1862 and a protectorate was declared over Cambodia in 1863. The southern region of Cochin-china was annexed in 1867 and Annam (central region) and Tonkin (northern region) became protectorates in 1883. Laos became a French protectorate
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Vietnam”. In this chapter of his book‚ Zinn covers the Vietnam war and the resistance to it. As the chapter title states‚ Zinn argues that the U.S was fighting a war that they could not win as the Vietnamese people were in favor of the government of Ho Chi Minh and opposed the of Ngo Dinh Diem‚ thus allowing them to keep morale high. Meanwhile‚ the American military’s morale for the war was very low‚ as many soldiers were put off by the atrocities that they were made to take part in‚ such as the My
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Part A Book worm magazine (BWM) interview with Feng Shan Ho 4th June‚ 1990 BWM: This week’s interview is with Feng Shan Ho on his new book “My Forty Years as a Diplomat”‚ that was released earlier this year. Hi Feng‚ first of all‚ tell me a bit about your early life. Feng: I was born in Yiyang‚ Hunan Province‚ in China‚ in 1901. I struggled to get an education as a child‚ but I was helped by the Norweigan Lutheran mission. To this day I feel a strong gratitude towards them. In 1926 I entered Munich
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Conference produced the Geneva Accords which called for the temporary separation of Vietnam into two zones and a general election which needed to be held to reunify the nation. This election would never take place because the U.S. realizing how popular Ho Chi Minh was with the population of Vietnam feared that if he won the presidency Vietnam would be completely communism and neighboring Laos and Cambodia would also fall to communism‚ which would then give the Soviet even more puppet states. To avoid
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