HIST 3057 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Jerry Rubin, Eugene Mccarthy, Guerrilla Warfare
28 Aug 2015
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The war in vietnam and at home 04. 08. 15. From late 19th century until ww2, vietnam didn"t really exist, it was part of something called. Indochina , it was a colony - during ww2, japan, the new imperial power in asia controlled. Ho chi minh established group called vietminh goal was first to get rid of japanese and when ww2 was over, french came back and try to reassert their colonial control so to get rid of. French ho chi minh believed in national self-determination, wanted its own country. Americans supported ho chi minh"s effort in 1940s ho"s declaration of independence from. Vietnam quoted directly from american declaration of independence. 1946~1954 france waged war to try and assert its control, war with vietminh to gain control over vietnam us began helping the french: dien bien phu (1954, defeat of french); geneva accords; eisenhower support. When eisenhower came to office, us was paying 80% of french cost of fighting vietminh .
