Pathet Lao Created The Liberated Area Analysis

The Fall of Saigon on April 30th, 1975, marked the end of nearly two decades of fighting between the Russia and China backed communist North Vietnam and the US backed right wing South Vietnam. When the North Vietnamese army entered Saigon, the free world was horrified at what it believed to be major drawback in its attempt to defeat communism around the world. In accordance with the domino theory, that same year, the capitals of neighboring former french colonies, Cambodia and Laos, both of which were also run by right wing regimes supported by the US, fell to communist insurgencies Khmer Rouge and Pathet Lao respectively. It took the communists three decades, millions of lives, and the destruction of billions of dollars in infrastructure and assets overthrow these western backed governments. So what gave these people, especially in Vietnam, incentive to sacrifice so much to “free” themselves from those governments and embrace communism as their system of governance? As this question is answered, it is important to identify aspects of the communist ideology that appeal to the general population, as well as how it goes along with Vietnamese culture, the actual practice and execution of the ideology.

The Geneva Peace Agreement in May 1954 set the foundation for the developments in the next coming years in Vietnam. The Agreement accorded that Vietnam was to be divided at the 17th parallel into communist North and democratic South Vietnam giving each country independence, a 200 day legal migration period and general elections to be held at both zones in 1956 to reunify Vietnam. The division would cause developments in each country including economic development through the growing nationalism in North Vietnam, political developments through political ineptitude and corruption in South Vietnam and social changes

Assess the consequences of the Vietnamese victory against the French for Indochina in the periods 1954-1964.

For centuries the Vietnamese people resisted being controlled by their powerful Chinese neighbors. They struggled to unify their country as an independent state. Ultimately they freed themselves from China 's claim for control of political authority and achieved national unity only to fall victim to French imperialism (Anderson 1). French ruled Vietnam and neighboring kingdoms as colonies from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century. Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia during World War II influenced the Vietminh war against the French in 1945. September 2nd, 1945, Ho Chi Minh declares independence from French rule shortly after Japans surrender from World War II (www.history.com). France 's rule over its colony was incredibly brutal and exploitative (Anderson 6). French colonialism deprived the Vietnamese of their political independence, and it impoverished many of the Vietnamese people (Anderson 7). Many villagers lost their lands and became low-paid plantation

Assess the importance of nationalism to the Vietnamese up to 1965. A clear desire for nationalism and self-nationalism in Vietnam was evident as early as the 15th century, when historian Nguyen Trai stated “although we have been at times strong, and at times weak, we have always been Vietnamese and this will never change.” The importance and significance of nationalism and establishing a sense of self-determination was of vital concernment to the Vietnamese, in both the North and South of the country. The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North) and the Republic of Vietnam (South) were both driving forces in the ambition of self-determination and their established sense of nationalism regardless of the

takeover of Indonesia in 1965 and the fact that the fall of much of Indochina was not followed by other

Born on August 20, 1952, three years before the Vietnam War, my uncle and his family were forced to migrate from North Vietnam to South Vietnam. As an intelligent boy with an ambitious dream, Anthony had not known of the land of freedom until tragedy struck. After World War II and until 1955, France worked hard to reign over Vietnam. Unfortunately, with a poorly organized army and little determination among the troops,

Chapter five explains the importance of nature and geography in warfare. It talks about the forests, jungles and vegetation 's importance and and advantages. The author tries to compare Wilderness of VA and Ia Dang valley of Vietnam or the civil war and Vietnam 's war. He believes that the there are dissimilarities between of time, hemisphere, strategy, tactics, trains and mission, but both war and locations have few things in common.

Indochina was a French colony located in the areas that are known as Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The French colonized the area in the mid to late 1800’s by force. The French justified their imperial action by claiming the “white man’s burden”. The white man’s burden is the ideology that Westerners were taking over control of lands to educate and civilize the native people. Westerners viewed themselves as superior towards other nations and that they had the responsibility to educate and civilize people that aren’t white. The French implemented many Western policies, including a system of racial

The two kinds of Dau Tranh, political and armed, worked together during the war to ensure North Vietnamese and VC victory. (Pike, 224-225)

The history of recent years in the Indochina conflict has been an eventful one. It will exhibit to the eyes of the future student some of the most remarkable instances of a ruthlessness and indifference to common humanity. Moreover, it will, I believe, demonstrate that North Vietnam has, for a long time, steadily pursued a communist regime which was deliberately designed to produce a subjugation of other countries by the threat of communism.

Arrowood, Janet. Vietnam . Edison, NJ: Hunter Publishing, 2009. eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 1 Oct. 2015.

This paper examines the early strategy of the Pathet Lao (PL) by focusing on the creation of the Liberated Area. The area was not only the military base, but also the economic or cultural one of the PL. Without developing it, the PL would be unable to demolish the Kingdom of Laos (KL) and establish the Lao People’s Democratic Republic in 1975.

Located in Southeast Asia between Thailand and Vietnam, Cambodia was home to one of the bloodiest political regimes to exist in the 20th century. In a country, in which American government reports in 1959 documented, was full of “ ‘docile and passive people…[who] could not be counted on to act in any positive way for the benefit of US aims and policies’”, the United States conflict in neighboring Vietnam brought about incredible changes to an unsuspecting people (qted. in Dunlop 70). The countryside was bombed by the United States in order to uproot suspected North Vietnamese holdouts and supply routes starting in 1969. These bombing raids, which devastated

Vietnam makes up a major part of Indochina, a region whose religions, philosophies, art, and political organizations were dominated by India and China for two millennia (Buttinger 1968). The region of Indochina retained its identity, despite the ideology of China that led to continual interference in the region (Luttwak 2012). Indeed, different Chinese dynasties had made continual efforts to invade and assimilate Vietnam for around a thousand years before the first central feudal government was formed in Vietnam in the early 11th century. Even after this period, Vietnam had to continuously guard against the invasion of Chinese and Mongolian dynasties until the Tay Son Kingdom defeated the invasion forces of the Qing dynasty in the late 18th