THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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outsiders took the farm land and made many people poor
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they supported Japan in World War 2
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they hated our freedom
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -After World War II, France sought to reestablish its control over the region. It sent troops to restore colonial rule. They were opposed by the Viet Minh, a Communist-based movement headed by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh that sought independence for Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the end of World War II, Ho Chi Minh-the Vietnamese Communist leader-seized an opportunity to escape decades of French rule. Japanese troops had taken control of Vietnam in 1945. The day Japan surrendered to the Allies, Ho Chi Minh declared independence in front of a crowd of exhilarated Vietnamese.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some people argue that nationalism, rather than communism, was the main factor that caused the Viet Minh to fight the French for control of Vietnam. Viet Minh Communist-led nationalist movement to gain Vietnam’s independence from French colonial rule.
Detailed explanation-4: -Course of the war In early 1946, the French landed a military force at Haiphong, and negotiations took place about the future for Vietnam as a state within the French Union. Fighting broke out in Haiphong between the Việt Minh government and the French over a conflict of interest in import duty at the port.