Prelims High-Yield Explanations & Traps

• place for political and cultural
• dates
• role in strengthening colonial control, it also provided
• symbol of struggle
• supply line by intensive bombing failed
• to be ‘modern’ is a good example of the thinking prevalent at that time
• were considerably different

Essential Definitions & Formulas

Even when an independent country was established in what

now northern and central Vietnam, its rulers continued to maintain the Chinese system of government as well as Chinese culture.

The Frenchman believes he

bringing civilization to backward people and the Vietnamese labourer argues against it.

Calm

complete, and the peasant can work with a good heart.

The French army

defeated at Dien Bien Phu.

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam

proclaimed.

This

what Phan Boi Chau later wrote about their discussions: ‘Thereafter over more than ten days, he and I debated time and again, and our opinions were diametrically opposed.

That

to say, he wished to overthrow the monarchy in order to create a basis for the promotion of popular rights; I, on the contrary, maintained that first the foreign enemy should be driven out, and after our nation’s independence was restored we could talk about other things.

It

based on the power of the people as opposed to monarchy French colonialism was resisted at many levels and in various forms.

It

this double loss that Phan laments, a lament that was typical of reformers from within the traditional elite.

Little

known about his early life mostly because Minh chose to downplay his personal background and identify himself with the cause of Vietnam.

The Deadly Poison Agent Orange

a defoliant, a plant killer, so called because it was stored in drums marked with an orange band.

The Ho Chi Minh Trail The story of the Ho Chi Minh trail

one way of understanding the nature of the war that the Vietnamese fought against the US.

I have promised myself that only when the South

liberated and peace and happiness return to the people, only then could I be free to focus on building our own happiness, only then I could be satisfied with our family life .

The Nation and Its Heroes Another way of looking at social movements

to see how they affect different groups in society.

The prison

my school, the sword is my child, the gun is my husband.

Vietcong soldiers pose triumphantly atop a tank after Saigon

liberated.

NCERT Thought Questions

• 33 The Nationalist Movement in Indo-China
• Fig. 6 – A local caricature ridiculing the Vietnamese who has been westernised.
• about the anti-imperialist movement in any one country in South America. Imagine that a freedom fighter from this country meets a Vietminh soldie

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