Ho Chi Minh’s Quest to End French Colonial Rule

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Keywords
Vietnam War Ken Burns Vietnam Southeast Asia Indochina French Indochina Pearl Harbor World War II WWII Japanese invasion Japanese occupation Ho Chi Minh Hồ Chí Minh OSS Office of Strategic Services military intelligence CIA guerillas guerilla war Vietnamese nationalism French colonialism Vietnamese independence independence movements US foreign policy Hiroshima Nagasaki atomic bomb Cold War communism containment policy domino theory Charles DeGaulle George Wickes Peter Dewey North Vietnam South Vietnam General Gracey Douglas Gracey WETA
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History-Social Science
Grade Levels
Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Ho Chi Minh’s Quest to End French Colonial Rule

By the spring of 1945, more than three years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States government was looking for allies behind the lines in Vietnam.

NOTE: This video is part of lesson plans titled The Political Philosophy of Ho Chi Minh and US Foreign Policy and Truman's Decision to Aid the French.
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PBS Learning Media

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