Vietnam assessment notification questions
French colonism- nature of
My knowledge
Run by puppet government
French saw involvement in IndoChina as a benefit to them
"modernised society"
Architecture
Noble class - mostly french
Vietnamese were mostly rural peasants and workers for these French
Vietnamese seen as lesser than
All revolutionists where crushed by french, imprisioned or exiled
Vietnamese served in french army
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Schools + hospitials built
growth of urban cities
Siagon
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Forced labour
Low wages, long hours, poor working conditions
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Political Divide
Urban civilians sided with French
Rural villages supported Vietnamese
Revolutionists had a strong sense of nationalism
Export of products
Products that would have helped the Veitnamese people were exported by french noble class
Rice, Wine salt
Political impacts
Repression and censorship
Puppet government *
Brutiality of Veitnamese people led by French milita
Helped fight WW1
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50000 troops
WW1
50000 troops served
Higher tax
Vietnamese peasants payed less and acted as "slaves"
The first Indo-China war and its consequences
Lead by Ho Chi Minh
Communist supporter
Ran the Viet-Minh
Guriella warfare
Bomb trains
In return French would attack villages burn homes, sexually assult woman and kill men
It followed WW2 and imperial japans rule in vietnam
French Fighting to restore colony
Viet-Minh fighting to gain independence
American supported french
Supplied them with military funding
Because of french threats to not support america in cold war
America hated communism
Much more french then Vietnamese
Veit Minh won in 1954 after a attack on their strong hold by camo'ed machine guns in the hills surrounding. They bombed the runway
Cold war context
Domino theroy
Soviet support of vietnam