The Vietnamese Revolution

Vietnam
The 10,000 Day War
The Land
Land of Deltas
Topography
Comparative Area
The Weather
Land Use
The Jungle
The Village
The City
The People
Population
Density
Dress
Traditional Wedding
Ao ba ba
Non la
Ao dai
Ao tu than
Non quai
thao
Yem
Summer Roll
Spring Roll
Food
Balut
Pho
Broken Rice
Dog Meat
Cellophane Noodles
Bahn Day and Bahn
Chung
Tet
Religion and
Philosophy
Chinese Heritage
Buddhism
Catholicism
Notre Dame Saigon Cathedral
Alexander de Rhodes
Hoa Hao and Cao Bai
Huynh Phu So
Economics
From Extraction to
Manufacture
Betel and Areca
An Ancient
Heritage
2879 BC - 258 BC
Hong Bang Dynasty
Known as Lac Viet
257-205 BC
Au Viet
Unification of Lac
Viet (coastal) and Au
Viet (mountainous)
into new Au Lac
polity
Bac thuoc
111 bc to 938 ad
Domination or
Influence
Chinese Domination
Heavy influence in areas of
language, culture, economy, and
administration
Chinese domination reinforced the
idea of an independent Vietnam
Nam Thien
938 to 1802
Imperial Expansion
Relatively unstable
Territorial gains mostly at the
expense of the Champa kingdom
Many periods of political disunity
alongside cultural unity
The Arrival of the
French
The Round eyes
Contact with Europe (Portugal) in
1516
Latinized alphabet for Vietnamese
developed in 1651
Nguyen Anh reunited Vietnam with
the help of the French in 1802
The French System
1858-1940
Tonkin
Indirect Rule
Annam
Protectorate
Cochinchine
Colony
Japanese Invasion
French
Indochina
captured as
part of the
expansion
during WWII
Hung Vuong
Semi-mythical
leader who
founded the
kingdom of Van
Lang and Hong
Bang Dynasty in
2879 BC
The Trung Sisters
Trung Trac & Trung Nhi
Daughters of a local sheriff who rebelled
against the Chinese in 40 AD
Committed suicide rather than be captured in
43 AD
Symbols of feminine power and nationalism
"I'd like to ride storms, kill sharks in the open sea, drive out the aggressors, reconquer the
country, undo the ties of serfdom, and never bend my back to be the concubine of whatever
man."
Lady Trieu
An orphan who
killed her sisterin-law
Fled to the
mountains and raised
an army to fight
Chinese domination
in 248
Committed suicide
rather than be
captured
A symbol of powerful
Vietnamese
femininity
Le Loi
Vietnamese
aristocrat who
repulsed a
Chinese invasion
in 1418
Became king of
independent
Vietnam in 1427
Gave a magic
sword to a turtle
Alexandre de
Rhodes
French Jesuit
missionary who
came to Vietnam in
the 1620’s
Developed the
Latinized alphabet
for Vietnamese
Helped found the
Paris Foreign
Missions Society
Ham Nghi
Teenage emperor who
escaped from the
French protectorate
of Annam
Led the nationalist
“Save the King”
movement in 1885 and
waged war against the
French
Exiled to Algeria
where he married a
pied-noir
Phan Boi
Chau
The father of
Vietnamese
nationalism
Fought for
independence
from France
Arrested in
1926 and under
house arrest
until death in
1940
Ho Chi Minh
Uncle Ho
Son of a humble government
official
Educated in Chinese and French
Traveled the world (New York,
London, Paris, Moscow, Beijing)
Led the Vietnamese nationalist and
communist revolution from 1941
until his death in 1969
Ngo Dinh
Diem
First president of
South Vietnam
Catholic, anticommunist lackey of
the French and the
U.S.
Corrupt practices
eventually led to his
assassination by
Vietnamese rivals
with the help of the
CIA
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Richard Milhouse Nixon
These three men were president during
the Second Indochina War
Bao Dai
The last emperor of
Vietnam
Worked closely with the
French and Japanese
invaders
Abdicated his throne in
1945
Was the president of the
French puppet state of
South Vietnam until 1955
Vo Nguyen Giap
Military
leader of the
revolutionary
armed forces in
both the First
and Second
Indochina Wars
Legendary
military
strategist and
hero of the
Vietnamese
people
Mao
Zedong
The larger than
life leader of the
Chinese Communist
Revolution
Gave indispensable
economic and
military aid to
the North
Vietnamese
William
Westmoreland
U.S. General
in charge of
Vietnam from
1964 to 1968
Oversaw the
number of U.S.
troops
increase from
16,000 to
585,000