Ho Chi Minh

Question 1

What year does Ho arrive in France for the first time?

Answer 1

1917

Question 2

Describe Ho’s revolutionary vision and his inspiration for it

Answer 2

1) 2 revolutions, Nationalist then a Socialist.
2) Focus on majority, Peasantry.
3) Adaptation of Lenin model.

Question 3

What year does Ho first visit Moscow and then China?

Answer 3

1924 and then 1925

Question 4

What was the RYL and how does Stalin influence it?

Answer 4

Revolutionary Youth League

Stalin declares Communist can only unite with other communists for revolution.

Question 5

When was the Hong Kong Unity Conference?

Answer 5

February 1930

Question 6

What party is created at the Hong Kong Conference and how does Stalin influence it?

Answer 6

Vietnamese Communist Party

Stalin makes party change name to Indochina Communist Party in October 1930 to lessen nationalist focus.

Question 7

What’s meant by the ICP having “semi-legal” status in 1936 and when does this end?

Answer 7

ICP can publicly meet and print pamphlets.

Ends in 1938 when French Government changes to more right wing government

Question 8

When are the Viet Minh formed?

Answer 8

May 1941

Question 9

Translate Thoi Co

Answer 9

Waiting for the right opportunity

Question 10

When is the Japanese Coup?

Answer 10

9 March 1945

Question 11

What is the Japanese Coup of 1945?

Answer 11

Japanese disarm and arrest collaborating French.

Japanese strip Vietnamese land to help supply their war machine

Question 12

Give 4 ways the Vietminh make gains in 1945?

Answer 12

1) Viet Minh control ‘liberated zones’ due to no French to police them
2) Viet Minh break into rice banks and feed the starving population
3) Viet Minh help set up schools
4) Viet Minh circulate propaganda

Question 13

What is the August Revolution?

Answer 13

Vietminh call for general uprising and take most rural cities and villages in northern Vietnam
Vietminh create a uniform government for the entire country
On September 2nd Ho Chi Minh issues speech in Hanoi declaring Vietnamese independence

Question 14

What year does Ho return to France to attempt to get them to live up to a promise of increased autonomy for the Vietnamese?

Answer 14

June 1946

Question 15

Why is Ho sent to China in the twenties?

Answer 15

To meet other Vietnamese exiles and create communist party

Question 16

When was the RYL set up?

Answer 16

1925

Question 17

What did FDR see as a significant reason for the abolishment of colonialism after the Second World War?

Answer 17

In 1941 he says that he “can’t believe we can fight a war against fascist Alavert and at the same time not work to free people all over the world from a colonial policy”

Question 18

What reservations did the British have in 1943 regarding FDR’s policy in Indochina?

Answer 18

They recognise that they will need a strong France to stabilise Europe after the war, perhaps more than the US. They also suspect the US of seeing an economic opportunity in new independent countries.

Question 19

How does FDR attempt to justify his Indochina position in 1944?

Answer 19

That he outnumbers the British in support, both Chiang Kai-shel and Stalin support FDR’s anti colonial outlook.

Question 20

How does Charles De Gaulle influence the US to let France back into Indochina?

Answer 20

That without a return to their former strength they may well have no choice but to fall into the communist orbit and that the US may well push them into it.