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He was born into a noble family. He became the emperor Bao Dai’s minister of the interior. He was frustrated France wouldn’t listen to his legislative reforms. Ho Chi later found him and invited him to join his democratic republic. He declined and later became a prime minister of a US backed government

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The Vietcong was a mass political organization in South Vietnam and Cambodia with its own army. Communist-led guerrilla force and revolutionary army of South Vietnam; the armed forces of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. The Vietcong’s main goal during the war was to overthrow the south Vietnamese government.

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This was a type of warfare that involved irregular forces in fast-moving, small-scale actions against orthodox military and police forces. The Vietnam forces used this method of warfare in the Vietnam war by ambushing US patrols, setting booby traps, and planting bombs in towns.

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President Nixon’s strategy for ending US involvement in the Vietnam War. This was done by the slow withdraw of troops from South Vietnam and making sure their were replacement forces for them. We went from having 500,000 troops to less than 25,000 troops in Vietnam.

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He lived in France during WWI and moved to the Soviet Union later and discovered their form of government called communism. He later founded a communist party in Vietnam. This party later came to power.

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States that non communism government will fall to communism because of neighboring governments or states. This theory was usually a excuse for presidents to get more militarily involved.

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The battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the French and the Viet Nimh forces. The reason they are fighting was because the French occupied the Dien Bien Phu valley. Eventually after the short period of about a month, the French were defeated at the valley.

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Def. a massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and early cities in 1968.

On January 30, the Vietnamese New Years Eve, villagers were mourning the loss of many of the war victims. What they didn’t know was that Vietcong agents had hidden weapons in the coffins. They then launched a surprise attack on over 100 towns in Vietnam (including 12 US air bases). It took months for the Vietnamese and US to gain control of these cities back. This war caused people with moderate views to turn against the war.