This presentation talks about the vietnam war and their freedom struggle by their famous revolutionaries

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VIETNAM WAR AND THEIR
FREEDOM STRUGGLLE
APRIL
BY MARIAM, ABHINEEL, AYUSH, YASH ,
SUBHASH, KHUSHI

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• Ho Chi Minh was born in Vietnam in 1911 he went to France as
a French cook and later formed French communist party in
1920. He later travelled to soviet union and earnt revolutionary
tactics there. He returned to Vietnam in 1941 .
• There, he organized a Vietnamese guerrilla organization–the
Viet Minh–to fight for Vietnamese independence. Also he made
contact with the Allies and aided operations against the
Japanese in South China
• Japan thereafter surrendered to allies , however France
occupied south Vietnam which led to the beginning of the First
Indochina War
Struggle for Independence

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• In 1954, the French suffered a major defeat at Dien Bien Phu, in
northwest Vietnam, prompting peace negotiations and the
division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel at a conference in
Geneva.
• Vietnam was divided into northern and southern regions, with
Ho in command of North Vietnam and Emperor Bao Dai in
control of South Vietnam.
• Ho Chi Minh died on September 2, 1969, 25 years after
declaring Vietnam’s independence from France and nearly six
years before his forces succeeded in reuniting North and South
Vietnam under communist rule. Saigon, the capital of South
Vietnam, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City after it fell to the
communists in 1975.
Struggle for Independence

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It was the first and only defeat of US army
Long war of approx. 20 yrs.
Use of massive bombs on the civil
Chemical war of orange agent
Cruelty from the prisoners on the other side
American helicopters during the war
Guerrilla warfare
Characteristics of the War

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• Desire of reunification from north Vietnam
• The Vietcong was the military arm of the National Liberation
Front (NLF), created by the North Vietnamese communists to
escalate the armed struggle in South Vietnam.
• Refusal to the reunification from the South side- referendum for
unification was cancelled It is the first and only defeat of the
Cause of War

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• Reunification of the country by communists
• 70% of the economy was shattered
• Forests were destroyed
• Deeply damaged crops
•830,000 dead
•900,000 wounded
Effects of war on Vietnam

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Vietnam War

14. Man must put an end
to war, or war will put
an end to mankind
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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