The Japanese And French Wars Flashcards
When was Vietnam part of an area known as French Indo-China?
1939
What did French Indo-China consist of?
Laos and Cambodia
The french had added these areas to their empire in the _____ century.
19th
What population did French Indo-China have?, and how many of these lived in Vietnam?
A population of 25 Million,20 million of them lived in Vietnam.
Indo-China was rich in natural resources. It was the world’s third largest grower of ____.’it also had ____,____,____.
Rice
Coal,Rubber,Corn
Why was Japan so keen to extend its influence in South East Asia?
In order to gain control of the vital raw materials of Vietnam.
France’s defeat in Europe in _____ gave Japan its chance to move in on Indo-China.
1940
Why did the French agree to allow to allow the Japanese to occupy French Indo-China?
Because they could not defend their colony against a Japanese army of 35,000 and so had no choice.
The Japanese allowed the French to continue running Indo-China as …..
Japan could take whatever resources they needed for the war agaisnt China.
The Japanese ____ stripped all they could from the region.
Ruthlessly
What was the effect of the Japanese stripping everything from Indo-China?
The local population starve
Between one half to two _____ Vietnamese starved to death. But the Vietnamese did not wait for an event like this in order to organize ______.
Million
Resistance
In _____ two leading Vietnamese communists ______ and ______ set up the League for the Independence of Vietnam in Southern China.
1941
Ho Chi Minh
Nguyen Vo Giap
Though Ho Chi Minh and Giap were communists, the Vietminh include ____ -______ organizations as well.
Non-Communists
What was the aim of the Vietminh?
It was essentially a nationalist one to establish an independent Vietnam, free from foreign domination. This meant fighting both the Japanese and French.
When was Ho born, who was he son of?
In 1890 and he was the son of a peasant.
Ho became a school teacher but left Vietnam for _____ in 1911 as a kitchen boy on a ______ ship. He worked as a pastry cook in a London hotel and began to get interested in politics. He then spent ___ years in Paris. Ho was strongly opposed to French rule in his country but he _____ French culture.
Europe
French
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Admired
Ho Chi Minh soon became a ______. At that time communist Russia promised to assist all peoples struggling to free themselves from _____ rule. He said it was _______ and not communism that originally inspired him. In _____ he founded the Indo-Chinese Communist Party.
Communist
Foreign
Patriotism
1929
Where were the Vietminh operating from?
China
The Vietminh also had the help of the American Intelligence Service,______________(OSS). The OSS trained and equipped the Vietminh during the war.
Organization of Strategic Services
When were the Vietminh able to begin guerrilla operations against the Japanese and French?
1944
The Vietminh attacks were mostly small scale attacks against isolated French outposts but they were _______. Support for the Vietminh grew as a result and by early 1945 the Vietminh had about _____ guerrilla fighters under the command of Nguyen Vo Giap.
Successful
5000
The Japanese tried to hard to hold onto Vietnam and in March 1945 they decided to get rid of the _____ altogether. French troops were _____ or ______ and French officials ________.
French
Disarmed or killed
Imprisoned
The Japanese offered to set up an independent Vietnam,totally free from french _____.
Control
