History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Indochinese Communist Party, National Myth, Monroe Doctrine
4 Mar 2014
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International challenges to state-building: during wwii, the vietminh emphasized the national question in all of their, state-building. Democratic republic of vietnam: august revolution in saigon, there were many groups claiming authority in the south of vietnam (the. Democratic republic of vietnam was not the majority: in the 15th century, the vietnamese started moving south into southern. Vietnam, colonizing territory (taking over territory much like what the. The cao dai (a religious group: drew on buddhism, christianity, confucianism. These two groups had their own identities and didn"t have allegiance to the communists: cochinchina was tied to the local economy. There were vietnamese elite who benefitted from the french imperial presence. The french didn"t do anything to help the economy they exploited. The rice and rubber (two main agrarian sectors) were geared towards exportation (the money wasn"t going into vietnam) The taxes went to maintaining the colonial apparatus (prisons, not helping the economy)
