give a note on the US Vietnam war. Explaining everything clearly( CBSE class 10)
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939 Vietnam gains independence from China
1279 China launches new invasion of Vietnam but is driven back
1407 China reinvades Vietnam, this time successfully
1428 Vietnamese finally drive Chinese out
1620 Vietnam is divided between Trinh in north, Nguyen in south
1858 French invade Vietnam
1862 French establish protectorate of Cochin China
1887 French merge Vietnam and Cambodia to form French Indochina
1893 French add Laos to their territory of French Indochina
1919 France ignores Ho Chi Minh’s demands at Versailles Peace Conference
1926 Bao Dai becomes last Vietnamese emperor
1930 Ho founds Indochinese Communist Party
1940 Japan occupies Vietnam
1941 Ho founds Viet Minh
1945 Viet Minh takes Hanoi in August Revolution Ho takes power, establishes Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) Truman rejects DRV’s request for formal recognition
1946 First Indochina War begins
1954 Viet Minh defeat French at Dien Bien Phu
1947 Containment doctrine begins to influence U.S. foreign policy
1948 USSR blockades Berlin; United States responds with Berlin airlift
1949 USSR conducts first successful atomic bomb test China falls to Communist rebels under Mao Zedong
1954 Eisenhower articulates domino theory
1955 U.S.-backed Ngo Dinh Diem ousts Bao Dai from power in South Vietnam
KEY PEOPLE
George F. Kennan - U.S. State Department analyst who developed influential policy of containment in 1947
Harry S Truman - 33rd U.S. president; adopted containment as a major part of U.S. foreign policy
Dwight D. Eisenhower - 34th U.S. president; modified containment policy with more pessimistic domino theory
Ngo Dinh Diem - U.S.–backed leader of South Vietnam; took power in fraudulent elections in 1955
Edward Lansdale - CIA operative stationed in Vietnam in 1954; eventually became advisor to Diem
Origins of the Cold War
U.S. involvement in Vietnam occurred within and because of the larger context of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Immediately after World War II, tensions between the United States and USSR escalated, as Soviet forces occupied nearly all of Eastern Europe and set up Communist governments there as a buffer between the Soviet Union and the capitalist West. In 1946, British prime minister Winston Churchill famously railed against the USSR in his “iron curtain” speech, which lamented the sudden wall of secrecy that had gone up between Eastern and Western Europe.
939 Vietnam gains independence from China
1279 China launches new invasion of Vietnam but is driven back
1407 China reinvades Vietnam, this time successfully
1428 Vietnamese finally drive Chinese out
1620 Vietnam is divided between Trinh in north, Nguyen in south
1858 French invade Vietnam
1862 French establish protectorate of Cochin China
1887 French merge Vietnam and Cambodia to form French Indochina
1893 French add Laos to their territory of French Indochina
1919 France ignores Ho Chi Minh’s demands at Versailles Peace Conference
1926 Bao Dai becomes last Vietnamese emperor
1930 Ho founds Indochinese Communist Party
1940 Japan occupies Vietnam
1941 Ho founds Viet Minh
1945 Viet Minh takes Hanoi in August Revolution Ho takes power, establishes Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) Truman rejects DRV’s request for formal recognition
1946 First Indochina War begins
1954 Viet Minh defeat French at Dien Bien Phu
1947 Containment doctrine begins to influence U.S. foreign policy
1948 USSR blockades Berlin; United States responds with Berlin airlift
1949 USSR conducts first successful atomic bomb test China falls to Communist rebels under Mao Zedong
1954 Eisenhower articulates domino theory
1955 U.S.-backed Ngo Dinh Diem ousts Bao Dai from power in South Vietnam
KEY PEOPLE
George F. Kennan - U.S. State Department analyst who developed influential policy of containment in 1947
Harry S Truman - 33rd U.S. president; adopted containment as a major part of U.S. foreign policy
Dwight D. Eisenhower - 34th U.S. president; modified containment policy with more pessimistic domino theory
Ngo Dinh Diem - U.S.–backed leader of South Vietnam; took power in fraudulent elections in 1955
Edward Lansdale - CIA operative stationed in Vietnam in 1954; eventually became advisor to Diem
Origins of the Cold War
U.S. involvement in Vietnam occurred within and because of the larger context of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Immediately after World War II, tensions between the United States and USSR escalated, as Soviet forces occupied nearly all of Eastern Europe and set up Communist governments there as a buffer between the Soviet Union and the capitalist West. In 1946, British prime minister Winston Churchill famously railed against the USSR in his “iron curtain” speech, which lamented the sudden wall of secrecy that had gone up between Eastern and Western Europe.
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