Word: vietminh
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...also rescued downed American flyers in Vietnam and saved them from the Japanese. At the end of WWII. Ho proclaimed, using Thomas Jefferson's very words, a Vietnamese Declaration of Independence Meanwhile, the British released and rearmed recently captured Japanese so that they-might destroy the Vietminh and restore control to the French who after a humiliating European war, wanted to keep their colony...
...second installment. "The First Vietnam War," the French fight the Vietminh for eight years only to be soundly defeated at Dien Bien Phu, as a French general pointedly recalls a talk with General Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese Defense Minister and instigator of Dien Bien Phu and the Tet Offensive...
Giap himself states the Vietminh military strategy, "...in war we have to win, absolutely have to win." The episode finishes with the precarious Geneva Accords of 1954, and closes after a story about the French Legionaires landing at Dien Bien Phu. After the legionaires patriotically sing their Legion song, a cadre of Vietnamese respond by chanting La Marseillaise having no song of their...
VIETNAM was on the verge of drastic change at the end of World War Two. The Vietminh coalition, building on a tradition of anti-Japanese resistance, rallied around nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh to throw off French imperialism. An ally of the United States during the war and a communist, Ho issued a declaration of independence resembling our own and attempted to negotiate a French withdrawal. Peaceful efforts failed, and a revolution of liberation began. Instead of working for an independent Vietnam, Washington backed the renewal of French colonialism...
...interest in them, except for military purposes. The American army in the 1960s sponsored and published several long and purportedly comprehensive studies of the tribes, which were relatively friendly to the United States. Along with the romantic accounts of French travelers (some tribesmen fought with the French against the Vietminh) the Army's studies are probably the most important source for Americans interested in them...