History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Red River Delta, Class Conflict, Communist Party Of China
27 Feb 2014
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Revolutionary origins: you say you want a revolution. *you are responsible for the reading in the lawrence textbook. Ho chi minh, 1919: ho chi minh was born around 1890 in northern vietnam, he left vietnam in 1911 and travelled the world (north africa, new york, boston, French imperialism and advocating vietnamese independence: he argued that rather than a civilizing mission, the french only brought misery. European power, the russians: he was concerned that if they got the french out, the japanese would easily be able to move in. The wilsonian moment: during wwi, the vietnamese were brought to fight for the europeans, when they came to the western front, they started to question the idea of. In the summer of 1920, ho chi minh read lenin"s thesis on the national and. Vietnamese were facing, and it provided a potential solution: after reading this, ho chi minh became a founding member of the french.
