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Indochina wars |
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Indochina wars20th-century conflicts in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The first conflict (1946–54; often called the French Indochina War) involved France, which had ruled Vietnam as its colony (French Indochina), and the newly independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh; the war ended in Vietnamese victory in 1954. Vietnam was then divided into the communist-dominated north and the U.S.-supported south; war soon broke out between the two. North Vietnam won the war (the Vietnam War) despite heavy U.S. involvement, and the country was reunited in 1976. Cambodia experienced its own civil war between communists and noncommunists during that period, which was won by the communist Khmer Rouge in 1975. After several years of horrifying atrocities under Pol Pot, the Vietnamese invaded in 1979 and installed a puppet government. Fighting between the Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese continued throughout the 1980s; Vietnam withdrew its troops by 1989. In 1993 UN-mediated elections established an interim government, and Cambodia's monarchy was reestablished. In Laos, North Vietnam's victory over South Vietnam brought the communist Pathet Lao into complete control in Laos. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Elliott's account shows much less continuity between the Communist personnel of the First and Second Indochina Wars than the versions put forth by previous authors on the subject. The real blame for the practical and moral shambles in which our military finds itself lies with our nation's elite, whose privileged members turned their back on military service when our Indochina wars gave them an excuse. The contributors elucidate the ways in which Vietnam's socialist state and the Vietnamese people have developed, revised and challenged official narratives of the recent past, particularly the revolutionary experience of the last fifty years, comprising the First, Second, and Third Indochina Wars and the concurrent and subsequent building and then partial dismantling of a society deemed socialist. |
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