HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tet Offensive, Proxy War, Colonial French
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Coming home: transformaion of the soldier back into the civilian i by prof. carol burke. Context for a discussion of the returning soldier. September 2, 1945: declaraion of independence: all men are created equal equal rights. 1954: french defeated at the batle of dien bien phu: a major batle, a singing defeat of the french. The french are totally surprised that they were defeated by the vietnamese. 1954: that same year, at a conference in geneva, the country temporarily divided into. Resist the elecion the most popular poliician in vietnam is ho chi. Fear that he will be the popular selecion of the leader, which will result in major changes in the government that is in place: the north backed by communist inluences, like soviet union and china. A division of a country into two parts: vietnam parallel to korea: imposed by naional powers, relect one another.
