Vietnamese Declaration of Independence

What country controlled Vietnam

French Imperialism

How did French Imperialism in Vietnam contradict their ideals of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity

deprived people of democratic liberties, implemented harsh and inhuman laws, built more prisons than schools, suppressed uprising, exploited Vietnamese economy

What country occupied Indochina

Japanese

What did dual oppression of French Japanese control result in Indochina

widespread starvation causing over two million Vietnamese Deaths, further denial of Vietnamese sovereignty and liberty, massacres of political prisoners by retreating colonial forces

What two important historical documents are used to back the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence

U.S. Declaration of Independence, French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

what are the universal rights asserted by the Declaration of Vietnam

equal and entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (freedom and self determination)

Who was the last emperor (Japanese surrender) 

Bao Dai

What did the Vietnamese people declare the Democratic Republic of Vietname

fright to be free and independent, mobilize to their full strength to safeguard the first, appeal to allied nations

what conferences did Vietnam appeal to

Teheran and San Francisco

What is the The People’s War

General Vo Nguyễn Giáp commentary ơn Vietnamese War for indepedence 

What does the general say the people’s war is focused on

restoring national independence and territorial unity, distributing land to peasant and securing their rights, defending the achievements of the August Revolution

what was the people’s war reliant on

mass involvement

what is recognized as the majority and principle social force in the people’s war

peasantry 

the peoples war can also be described as the

anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle

who led the Vietnam war for independence

working class, mobilizing peasant to ensure a broad based resistance capable of achieving national liberation