Published On Sep 22, 2023
Nearly 20 years before the first US combat troops stepped foot in Southeast Asia, another war in Vietnam began as communist forces rose on the streets of Hanoi to start an all out struggle against French rule. It was a struggle that would last for seven years and be every bit as brutal as the American war to come.
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0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Indochina under the French and Japanese
2:13 - A fleeting Independent Vietnam
2:47 - Britain gets the French in
4:36 - Forced Diplomacy
6:22 - The mood turns sour
8:13 - The Haiphong Massacre
9:47 - The Battle of Hanoi
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Artwork by:
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Sources:
Max Hastings, Vietnam
John Springhall, "Kicking out the Vietminh: How Britain Allowed France to Reoccupy South Indochina", Journal of Contemporary History, Jan 2005 https://www.jstor.org/stable/30036312
George C. Herring, "The Truman Administration and the Restoration of French Sovereignty in Indochina", Diplomatic History, Spring 1977 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24909909
Ralph B. Smith, "The Japanese Period in Indochina and the Coup of 9 March 1945", Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Sep. 1978
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i20062721
Stein Tønnesson, Vietnam 1946: How the War Began
Christopher Goscha, The Road to Dien Bien Phu
Bernard Fall, Street without Joy: the French debacle in Indochina,
Music Credits:
"Rynos Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Crypto" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Stay the Course" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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