HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Cold War, Korean War, Ngo Dinh Diem
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(cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Called endochina two rice bowls connected with a stick. Several centuries old (counting as an ethnic group) Japanese take over (french puppet government, ran bureaucracy for vietnamese. Then threw them in jail) then started milking. Japs took all the rice and stored it and shipped it off to their troops. Vietnamese rose up in north behind ho chi minh, robin hood rice stealer. Made his group popular under the vietnamese peeps. Us sends in cia peeps (oss actually) to help train up ho chi mihn and his forces, the vietminh. Ho chi minh declares independence when japs surrendered. Stepped immediately into power vacuum (?) when japs got thrown out. Big question about what u. s. would do with european colonies after the war. Let europeans decide what to do. decision very unsettled when roosevelt died: se asia didn"t have clout, commies in france rebelled against existing government.
