Vietnam and France held a meeting in Geneva‚ on the same day Dien Bien Phu fell. They argued about elections in Vietnam. Finally they agreed on the following parts: Vietnam would be divided temporarily in two along the 17th parallel the North under Ho Chi Minh and South under Ngo Dinh Diem The Vietminh forces would withdraw from the South and the French would pull out of the North A date for the elections was fixed: July 1956 Later this meeting was referred to as the Geneva Agreement. The
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the United States Withdraw From the Vietnam War? The United States withdrew from the Vietnam War for several reasons. The Army had to fight in unfamiliar territory‚ was lacking in moral‚ were not prepared for the conditions‚ could not shut down the Ho Chi Minh Trail‚ and were untrained to respond to guerilla warfare. This combination of disadvantages and the loss of public support led to the United States withdrawing from Vietnam. The United States Army was forced to fight in a new land that had
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THE VIETNAM WAR Did you know about 1.5 million people died during the Vietnam War‚ which was more than the population of New Mexico in the 1960s? Vietnam‚ which is relative in size to New Mexico‚ is a country in Asia that borders the Gulf of Tonkin. The Vietnam War was a result of people in Vietnam wanting independence from France. The US supported the French so that all of Vietnam would not become a communist country and so this would not lead to other countries following in their footsteps
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The role of the French in the Indo-Chinese war could be characterized as a desperate attempt to maintain control over their colonies in Asia. For the uninitiated‚ in the aftermath of the Second World War‚ the majority of European powers‚ which were inclusive of Britain and Germany‚ had relinquished their colonies‚ deeming them as distracting burdens. On the contrary‚ the French were still adamant that the possession of colonies would give the nation much desired power and status. From December 19
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AT WAR’S END: AN ELEGY by Rony V. Diaz ©2002 by Copper Sturgeon 1. THE DINNER PARTY THE evening before he killed himself‚ Virgilio Serrano gave a dinner party. He invited five guests—friends and classmates in university— myself included. Since we lived on campus in barracks built by the U.S. Army‚ he sent his Packard to fetch us. Virgilio lived alone in a pre-war chalet that belonged to his family. Four servants and a driver waited on him hand and foot. The chalet‚ partly damaged‚ was
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VIETNAM I. Intro II. Body a. Origins of the war/Justifications (or just have own paragraph) • Ho Chi Minh (beat the French 1954) • French Colonization • Split North/ South • North is communist; South is not. • Gulf of Tonkin (incident was used by the US; it may or may not have happened)/Resolution • Cold War & economic justifications III. Body a. Problems fighting in the war • Guerilla Warfare • Disillusionment • South Vietnamese Political Corruption o Ngo Dinh Diem • Temporary leader
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purpose of this essay is to explain how the Vietnam War led to many effects. The main reason why the Vietnam War occurred is because the Vietnamese wanted independence from the French. At first Vietnam was controlled by the afranch. Then‚ Ho Chi Minh fought the French and won. Then the Vietnam split into two countries: North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The North was communist and the South was not. This later became a conflict because the Vietcong fought the leader of South Vietnam because
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the South. Despite the downfall of Agricultural reforms in 1956 the DRV authorities were able to begin to increase food production allowing the North the stabilize itself. By 1960 North Vietnam had made significant economic progress as the result of Ho Chi Minh setting up Cooperative Plans‚ making actions to unify Vietnam possible. The role that the Geneva Agreement played in this was its accords to give North Vietnam independence to carry out these developments. From this farmers began to work on
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(Lunsford‚ 2000). Personal Experience With Vulnerable Population My personal experience with vulnerable population is that I my family was one that lived through it. My family migrated on a boat from the Vietnam War back in 1980 to get away form Ho Chi Minh to come to America. When they first got to America‚ they struggle with language and healthcare assess‚ they were classified as being under welfare for many years until they can get on their feet and get there citizenship to go to school and
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Ideology was more important than culture and religion for the growth of nationalist movements in the period before WWII. How far do you agree? Colonial rule had brought about many significant impacts in South East Asian countries which included many dissatisfactions among the natives. Thus‚ this brought about the rise of nationalist movements. There are many reasons to why there was a development of these movements and the two main reasons for this cause was ideology as well as religion and culture
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