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How did the French treat the Vietnamese during the occupation?
French perspectives saw life as a peasant as generally quite adequate.
Vietnamese perspectives saw life as a peasant as essentially a poorly treated slave.
Vietnamese people were exploited for their opium. They were then made to be addicted to it.
The French held alcohol, opium and salt monopolies.
Quotas were set for both rice wine and salt so that the Vietnamese people could only buy very expensive French salt and rice wine.
As French rice wine and salt was so expensive, many chose not to consume. The lack of salt was quite unhealthy,
How did the French treatment of the Vietnamese lead to nationalism?
Discontent and anger formed from the Vietnamese towards the French because of their taking of their civil liberties and their placing of economic burdens on them.
Eventually, the Vietnamese began to be adversarial.
Why and how did the events of WW1 and the interwar years lead to the emergence of left-wing nationalism in Vietnam?
Vietnamese were forced into the military as either soldiers or munitions workers.
Treatment of the Vietnamese during this time was very obviously unethical. Little compensation and payment for work.
This all raised support for both communism and nationalism which appeared to offer solutions for the problems created by the French.
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Communism
Left-Wing Nationalism
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Mercantilist practices.
Benefited economically through taxing the population.
Trained and educated selected individuals
Profit from agricultural production.
Military Benefits
Exploited the Vietnamese.
Nationalism
How did Vietnam's history shape its peoples' senses of national identity?
Shared land, with a shared origin story of that land. Mythology connected to that land.
Common language -- Vietnamese.
Common culture.
Common enemy -- the Chinese and then the French. They were an outside invader attempting to take over and theoretically assimilate the Vietnamese.
How were the French able to take control of the region?
After first making contact with the French, the Vietnamese leaders realised that French weapons could be useful in defeating internal adversaries.
The French used the sale of weapons as an excuse to begin to raise their influence in Vietnam. This is referred to as the Le Mission Civilisatrice (occurring from the 1500s to the 1800s).
The French were able to increase influence and control over the Vietnamese by taking away their right to have foreign affairs (sovereignty), taking away their economic sovereignty and controlling access into the country.
They then broke the country up into different administrative regions so their would be less unity.