HISTORY 2500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Viet Minh, Military Intelligence, France 2
26 Dec 2017
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Soviets promoted alliances with communists and non-communists around the world. Allowed for ho chi minh to expand influence. Colonial government allowed communists to enter political life, with candidates for office. Shift of power a) b) c) b) c) Germany weakened france and its global hold on colonies, enabling japan to take over. Japan took all of indochina by 1941 (france still had some oversight), vietnamese saw apparent end to. Icp tried to take on japanese using guerilla tactics, later switched to political organizing. Ho chi minh led patriotic front creating new independence organization called viet minh. Trying to create guerilla units, get us support, prepare the right moment to strike japan. Japanese finally took down french administration completely and instated a regime in 1945. Ho chi minh saw this as about the right time to strike, when japan would finally collapse to allies in.
