HISTORY 🫥 (Vietnam war)

• first indochina war


  a war between the french and viet minh started by the french to re-occupy vietnam after the end of ww2 in 1945

  viet minh entered hanoi and declared independence. tensions escalated and open conflict broke out a year after.
• first indochina war viet minh warfare tactics


  guerilla warfare which they used against the japanese. they retreated to the mountains and forests and carried out surprise raids against the french
• first indochina war guomingdang 


  anti-communist GMD did not want a pro-communist viet minh to take power. however, GMD was defeated by chinese communists in china in 1949. mao established a communist government in china.

  as a result, communist china supported viet minh by supplying food, military advisors, medical supplies and soviet-made weapons. ho chi minh’s forces were trained by the military advisors mao sent.
• aftermath of communist influence in vietnam (1st indochina war)


  french launched a propaganda campaign warning people that the viet minh was an agent of the communist china and ussr.
• Strategic Hamlet Programme


  A US-backed program implemented during the Vietnam War, relocating peasants to fortified villages to separate them from the communist insurgency and win their loyalty.
• strategic hamlet programme

  relocate peasants to fortified villages away from the influence of Viet Cong.