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
Lieutenant Colonel A. Peter Dewey
60,000 Americans would die1.5 million Vietnamese
Vietnam War
1950Post WWII FranceCommunism?
Why Vietnam?
Late 1800’s to WWIIFrance ruled Indochina
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
France in Vietnam
French ColonistsTook land from
peasantsRaided rubber and
riceJailed and restricted
freedom to Vietnamese
1930’suprisings
Ho Chi MinhIndochinese
Communist Party founded in 1930
Led uprisingsCondemned to death
by FrenchFled to Soviet Union
and China
Japanese take control of VietnamMinh returnsVietminh created
1941
Ho chi Minh declared independenceHanoi, Vietnam
September 2, 1945
1946 – Drove Vietminh out of the citiesGained control of the southern half
France
1950Began sending aid ($$) to FranceIrony
US formerly supplied Ho Chi Minh in efforts against the Japanese!
Why aid France now???!!???
United States
Communism
Continued to supply FrenchDomino Theory
Ike
Vietminh drive the French out of this northern city