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Moving Toward Conflict

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Moving Toward Conflict. Lieutenant Colonel A. Peter Dewey. Vietnam War. 60,000 Americans would die 1.5 million Vietnamese. Why Vietnam?. 1950 Post WWII France Communism?. France in Vietnam. Late 1800’s to WWII France ruled Indochina Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. French Colonists. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Moving Toward Conflict

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Lieutenant Colonel A. Peter Dewey

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60,000 Americans would die1.5 million Vietnamese

Vietnam War

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1950Post WWII FranceCommunism?

Why Vietnam?

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Late 1800’s to WWIIFrance ruled Indochina

Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia

France in Vietnam

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French ColonistsTook land from

peasantsRaided rubber and

riceJailed and restricted

freedom to Vietnamese

1930’suprisings

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Ho Chi MinhIndochinese

Communist Party founded in 1930

Led uprisingsCondemned to death

by FrenchFled to Soviet Union

and China

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Japanese take control of VietnamMinh returnsVietminh created

1941

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Ho chi Minh declared independenceHanoi, Vietnam

September 2, 1945

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1946 – Drove Vietminh out of the citiesGained control of the southern half

France

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1950Began sending aid ($$) to FranceIrony

US formerly supplied Ho Chi Minh in efforts against the Japanese!

Why aid France now???!!???

United States

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Communism

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Continued to supply FrenchDomino Theory

Ike

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Vietminh drive the French out of this northern city

France taps out

Dien Bien Phu

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Geneva AccordsDivided Vietnam

along the 17th parallel

Hanoi – Northern capital

Saigon – Southern capital