Transcript Vietnam - 90 Cubed Rule

• “two rice bowls at
the opposite ends
of a carrying pole”
Vietnam timeline
• 2,000 BC – Vietnam
inhabited by the
“Viets”
• 111 BC Han Dynasty of
China conquers the
region
• 1418-26 – Vietnamese
revolt against China
– establish kingdom of Le
Thanh-tong
Viet puppet/statue
French colonize Vietnam
Napoleon III of France as vulture,
lampooned by Harpers Monthly, 1872
Ho Chi Minh (“he who
enlightens”)
• Born in 1890 as Nguyen
That Thanh
• From Paris . . . to China . . .
• . . . To Vietnam to organize
a liberation army: the Viet
Minh
modern
Vietnam
Ho’s forces wave the Vietnamese
flag at Dien Bien Phu, 1954
the 1954 Geneva accords
1954 Geneva conference
SEATO (South East Asian Treaty
Organization)
• established in 1954
• included U.S., France, Great
Britain, Australia, New
Zealand, Thailand, Taiwan, the
Philippines and Pakistan
Ngo Dihn Diem
• Takes charge of South
Vietnam in 1956;
Creates the Republic
of Vietnam