Transcript AMH Chapter 19 Section 1 Part 1

Chapter 19
Section 1
Part 1
Colonization of Vietnam
• From the late 1800s,
France ruled Vietnam,
calling the land, French
Indochina.
Ho Chi Minh
• By the early 1900s,
several political parties
wanted independence
from France.
• One of the leaders of the
movement was Ho Chi
Minh.
• In 1941, after Japan had
taken control of Vietnam,
Ho Chi Minh organized a
group called the Vietminh
to try to get rid of the
Japanese.
How we got involved
• When Japan was defeated
in 1945, it gave up control
of Vietnam.
• France asked the United
States to regain control of
Vietnam.
• The United States did not
want Vietnam to be
communist, so President
Truman began sending
aid to French forces in
Vietnam.
Ike Supporting Vietnam
• President Eisenhower continued to support
the French because he believed in the domino
theory, which said that if Vietnam fell to
communism, other Southeast Asian nations
would also.
Vietminh
• The Vietminh used
guerrillas, or irregular
troops who look like
civilians and are difficult
to fight.
• They were essentially
farmers by day, soldiers
by night.
Dien Bien Phu
• In 1954, the Vietminh
defeated the French at
Dien Bien Phu.
• The French knew they
could not continue to
have Vietnam (French
Indochina) as a colony
and they left.
Geneva Accords
• Negotiations to end the
conflict between the French
and the Vietminh took place in
Geneva, Switzerland.
• Among the conditions of the
Geneva Accords, Vietnam was
divided into North Vietnam
(controlled by the communist
and Ho Chi Minh) and South
Vietnam (pro-western
democratic country).
• If this sounds familiar, this is
what happened in Korea after
World War II.