French Failure in Indochina
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- Created on: 14-01-18 17:09
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- Why did the French fall in Indochina?
- Ho's popularity
- US official pointed out unpopularity of Bao Dai
- Government had no appeal to the masses
- Seen as a patriot, who cared about the ordinary people
- Fairer distribution of land
- Education and health programmes
- US official pointed out unpopularity of Bao Dai
- Viet Minh General Giap's brilliance
- Paid great attention to winning over ordinary people and dealing with civilians
- Units held self-criticism sessions
- Soldiers willingly suffered for Vietnam
- Start with guerrilla warfare to wear them down, then move to set-piece battles
- Strength and Ingenuity of the Viet Minh
- Proved elusive and determined
- Guerilla tactics utilised physical geography
- French struggled on the flooded dirt tracks
- Fought for Vietnamese freedom and social justice
- French Arrogance
- Tried 'yellowing' their army, but didn't trust the new recruits
- Beginning to lose interest and heart in Indochina
- Failed to anticipate peasant volunteers turning their own guns against them
- Ho's popularity
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