HIST-102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Kwame Nkrumah, Tet Offensive
12 Apr 2018
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The us bombed north and south vietnam in 1965. Vietnam defeated china, france and the us. January 1968 tet offensive. (67,000 vietnamese people vs. The americans) attacks mostly taking place in the cities where many american soldiers were. Because of tet offe(cid:374)sive viet(cid:374)a(cid:373) lost (cid:373)ore tha(cid:374) of it"s force. Paris agreements of 1973: end of the bombing in exchange for the release of the. A(cid:373)erica(cid:374) pow"s; provisio(cid:374)s for a peaceful political process. All provisio(cid:374)s rejected as soo(cid:374) as pow"s returned. The victory of the north and unification. American goal: to prevent social revolutions in the third world. 20% of agricultural land in vietnam could not be used because of unexploded weapons, Lack of communist solidarity: china and ussr betrayed vietnam. and agent orange. The third indochina war (1979) and the future of the region: The result: embargo organized by the us and china. Negritude (blackness) belief in distinctive african identity.
