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The Conflicts of Indochina(Vietnam) 1954-1979
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French Indochina comprised the
countries of Cambodia, Laos,
and Vietnam, which were
united under French colonial
rule in 1893.
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The territory was occupied by Japan from 1939 to 1945.
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Following Japan’s defeat in World War II, the Viet Minh, a
Vietnamese nationalist-
communist group led by Ho Chi Minh,
occupied northern
Vietnam.
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The Viet Minh founded the independent Democratic of Vietnam (DRV), with its capital at Hanoi. France, determined to regain control of the territory, reoccupied the south. The First Indochina War, between France and the DRV,
broke out in 1946.
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During the first 3 years of the war, the better-armed French forces made little progress against the guerilla tactics of
the Viet Minh.
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To gain the support of the local
population, the French established
an independent Vietnamese
government in the south under former president Bao Dai,
in 1949.
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The U.S. government, determined to halt the spread of communism in Asia,
supported the French, while the new Communist government in China
supported the Viet Minh.
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In 1954, the Viet Minh captured a French military base at Dien Bien Phu. The French,
tiring of the campaign, agreed to withdraw from Vietnam. At a peace conference in Geneva, it
was agreed that the country would be reunified
following elections in 1956.
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However, the new leader in South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, refused to hold elections because, he claimed, a free vote was impossible in the communist North. The U.S. supported Diem’s
position, preferring an independent non-communist South Vietnam to the most likely alternative: reunification under Communist
rule.
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Diem’s government, based in Saigon, lacked popular support, and was opposed by many, especially in the countryside, who saw it as a
puppet of the U.S. An organized rural opposition emerged, called the Viet Cong,
support by the DRV.
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Open warfare between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese (ARVN) broke out in 1959.
The U.S. government offered military advisers and financial support to sustain the Diem
regime, but it grew increasingly vulnerable, especially after Diem himself was assassinated
in a military coup in 1963.
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In 1964, the U.S. government under President Lyndon Johnson used an
attack on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin as an excuse to become directly involved
in the conflict.
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U.S. planes began bombing North Vietnam and in 1965, the first American combat troops were deployed to attack
Viet Cong forces in the South.
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The DRV and Viet Cong avoided major battles where superior American
firepower could be decisive, opting instead for guerilla tactics, including
ambushes and bomb attacks.
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Prolonged and intensive U.S. aerial bombing failed to demoralize the North,
and despite suffering high casualty rates, the DRV and Viet Cong always managed
to replace their losses.
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As the war dragged on with no sign of victory, it began to attract strong opposition from many in the U.S.,
especially college students.
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In early 1968, on the day before the Vietnamese celebration of Tet, the DRV
and Viet Cong launched a major offensive, attacking military bases and
the major cities in the South.
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The invaders were driven back, but
the Johnson administration, stunned by the offensive, did agree to begin
peace negotiations.
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The talks, in Paris, came to nothing. In 1969, faced with growing domestic
opposition to the war, the new president, Richard Nixon, ordered a gradual troop
withdrawal.
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Nixon also escalated the conflict, however, when he ordered, in 1970, an
invasion of Cambodia, which was providing military supplies to North
Vietnam.
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Anti-war protests intensified as news emerged in 1971 of a massacre of innocent Vietnamese
by a U.S. army unit at My Lai, and the American use of the highly toxic defoliant, Agent Orange,
against the jungle bases of the Viet Cong.
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North Vietnam launched another offensive in 1972, again successfully
countered. Exhausted, both sides agreed to further talks, leading to a ceasefire in 1973 and U.S. agreement to withdraw its
forces.
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After U.S. troops had gone, the conflict resumed, with the North now at a decided advantage. The war ended in April 1975 when North Vietnamese forces captured
Saigon, renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
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In 1976, Vietnam was reunited as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The war
had left much of South Vietnam in ruins.
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The new government imprisoned thousands of South Vietnamese, and
private businesses were forced to close, precipitating an exodus of around a
million Vietnamese between 1975 and the early 1990s.
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In 1975, a Cambodian communist organization, the Khmer Rouge, under their leader Pol Pot, seized power and
renamed the country Democratic
Kampuchea.
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The Khmer Rouge had a
vision of Cambodia as a
peasant-run agrarian state.
They marched all city dwellers into the countryside and forced them to take up farm
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Intellectuals, merchants, bureaucrats, clergy and any ethnic Chinese or
Vietnamese were slaughtered en masse. Millions more were forcibly relocated,
deprived of food and tortured.
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During the four years that the Khmer Rouge were in power, some
1.7 millions were killed, which was more than a fifth of the population.
The regime was overthrown by
Vietnamese forces during an invasion in
1979.
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