Abstract
Few Americans knew much about Vietnam in 1964, though small numbers of American soldiers had been there as “advisers” since 1961. Vietnam had been a French colony since the nineteenth century, but was occupied by the Japanese during World War II. Following Japan’s withdrawal, the Viet Minh, a coalition of Vietnamese nationalists and Communists, declared an independent republic. The French unsuccessfully fought a war with the Viet Minh to reestablish their control. They admitted defeat and withdrew in 1954.
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© 2003 Sandy Polishuk
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Polishuk, S. (2003). Vietnam. In: Sticking to the Union. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403973559_19
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