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A detailed summary of indo china lesson please .

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SummaryIndo-China comprises of theterritories of Cambodia, Laos andVietnam.In the mid-nineteenth century,Vietnam became a colony of France.The nationalists were organisedinto a political party, the Vietminh,which had been created in 1941After the fall of Japan in 1945, theVietminh declared Vietnam anindependent nationThe French, did very little toindustrialise the economyFrench claimed that they werebringing modern civilisation to theVietnamese.The French feared that onceeducated, the Vietnamese maybegin to question colonialdomination.The elites in Vietnam werepowerfully influenced by ChinesecultureIn 1907, Tonkin Free School wasstarted to provide a western styleeducation.Bubonic plague started to spread inthe modern part of Hanoi in 1903The French sought to reshapesocial and cultural life of theVietnamese.The Scholars Revolt in 1868 was anearly movement against Frenchcontrol and the spread ofChristianity.Huynh Phu So started the Hoa Haomovement in 1939Confucian scholar-activists ledresistance to French domination inthe late nineteenth centuryJapan occupied Vietnam in 1940.The Democratic Republic ofVietnam was formed with Ho ChiMinh as the Chairman.The earlier regime was soonoverthrown by a coup led by NgoDinh Diem.The entry of US into the war provedto be fatal for bothThe Ho Chi Minh trail symboliseshow the Vietnamese used theirlimited resources to greatadvantage.The women played a mighty role inthe struggle of the nation.The French began to struggle withthe Vietminh to reestablish controlover the countryIn 1949, they established anominally independent nationalgovernment under the leadershipof the former emperor, Bao Dai.In 1953, Vietminh forces engagedthe French in a major battleThe French were surrounded andthe First Indoc...