Vietnam: winning the war and losing the peace (1954-2002)

Exposé Histoire & géographie Histoire contemporaine

Date de publication :

07/09/2003

Langue :

French

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7 pages

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Vietnam's historical background
1. A country ruled by foreign authorities
2. Vietnamese nationalism and the first Indochina war ( 1945- 1955)
The tragedy of the Vietnam war
1. The escalation period of the war (1955-1965)
2. Increasing American involvement (1965-1975)
After the war?
1. A nation that won the war but lost the peace
2. American responsibility

Résumé :

With the exception of Cambodia, there is hardly any other country in the world that could claim to have suffered as much as vietnam in the post-World war II period. The country was marked by continual conflict, with only a brief period of peace following the Geneva settlement of 1954, leaving it with generations traumatised by war, terror and bombings. The long war in which the US was involved divided the public opinion all over the globe, along with the spectacle of a third world people resisting and defeating the best militarily equipped nation in the world. The Wars ravaged a country which after having occupied the front pages of newspapers for years sank in poverty and indifference. Twenty-seven years after the end of the American war the Vietnamese would rather move forward than stay stuck in the past