History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Circular Reasoning, Total War, Participatory Democracy
19 Mar 2014
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Victor charlie : people"s liberation armed forces (plaf) Live and death on the ho chi minh trail: peoples army of vietnam (pavn) The american war at home: students for a democratic society, the television war. Nlf was waning, it didn"t mean they were giving their support to the south. Vietnamese government: the initial leadership of the nlf were either dead or disabled because of the fighting, for the next generation of nlf leaders, they just wanted to end the fighting (social reform wasn"t as important to them) General offensive general uprising: le duan wanted to find a way to rally the north vietnamese people behind him and the war effort in general, so he adopted a general offensive/general. Vietnam into a police state (he would round up and arrest all political opposition) Gender relations in the north: the war had a profound impact on gender relations in north vietnam (perhaps more than any other war)
