HIST 2112 Lecture 22: 11:29:2016
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Send good thoughts to those who are hurting. This war snuck up on the us over many years, then exploded 1965. South of china people of the south . They had many aspects of chinese culture. They hated invaders from the outside because china was always invading them. There are serious mountains on the thin part of vietnam. Most of the major ground fighting is done in south vietnam trying to prevent. Communism (korean war was around a peninsula us naval power was overwhelming around all sides of korea) Vietnam is very different lots of thick jungle, especially in the south where. French were trying to get their colony (vietnam) back. England and france didn"t want to give up their power. Us didn"t want france to take back french indochina. Us really, really, really didn"t want france to go communist. This happened slowly in the 1950s-1960s, then rapidly after that.
