THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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He appealed to the United Nations to uphold the Geneva Accords despite U.S. protest.
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He sent guerrillas into the countryside to help topple Diem’s government.
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He created the Vietcong army and marched across the 17th parallel.
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He held unofficial elections across the country showing himself the winner.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ho Chi Minh’s strategy was to get the French to make the Chinese in the north withdraw and then to work for a treaty with France in which recognition of independence, evacuation of Leclerc’s forces, and reunification of the country would be assured.
Detailed explanation-2: -Viet Cong (VC), in full Viet Nam Cong San, English Vietnamese Communists, the guerrilla force that, with the support of the North Vietnamese Army, fought against South Vietnam (late 1950s–1975) and the United States (early 1960s–1973).
Detailed explanation-3: -Hồ Chí Minh led the Communist-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, defeating the French Union in 1954 at the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, ending the First Indochina War, and resulting in the division of Vietnam, with the Communists in control of North Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Vietcong The Vietnamese Communists, or Vietcong, were the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and were commanded by the Central Office for South Vietnam, which was located near the Cambodian border. For arms, ammunition and special equipment, the Vietcong depended on the Ho Chi Minh trail.