Questions tagged [vietnam]
For questions about the country of Vietnam
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How did Vietnam do era names prior to the reign of emperor Gia Long?
How did Vietnamese era names work before the "One reign, One era name" system? I know starting with Gia Long they had era name defined by the ruler (Gia Long to Bao Dai), but before that it ...
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What is the source of the cartoon against the US war in Vietnam ending with "I just get killed"?
There was an antiwar cartoon that showed a sequence of persons from the United States, each with words suggesting they had little or no responsibility for the war, e.g. "I just do the ...
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Was America behind any 'false flag' bomb attacks in Saigon in the early 1950s?
Graham Greene was a journalist in Vietnam during 1951-1954. His 1955 novel The Quiet American depicts the US as plotting with Trình Minh Thế's Caodaiist faction to bomb a military parade in Saigon, so ...
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Was Russia or the USSR ever involved in a large military embarrassment alongside or against Vietnam?
I was listening to a Russian politician's (2021, pre-war) declaration of what would happen with the current war in Ukraine, and I was caught offguard by him mentioning a Russian military-related ...
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What happened to the King Bar in Saigon?
Bar in Saigon with playing card designs in the windows (source).
Considered an important location.
It was on Tu Do street, now Dông Khoï street, formerly rue Catinat.
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Were the North Vietnamese close to collapse in 1972?
I have seen snippets (first in Jeremiah Denton's book "When Hell was in Session" ) of information from recent scholarship that the North Vietnamese may have been ready to give up in 1972. I ...
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Did Vietnam have to pay back the Soviets / China?
According to this article, estimates of the total cost of the Soviet Union's support to the North Vietnam government range from $3.6 billion to $8 billion.
China too lent its support
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What does the Vietnamese name "Nguyen" actually mean?
In 13th century Vietnam someone overthrew the Ly dynasty and forced all the members of that family and its nobles to change their name to Nguyen.
When that dynasty was overthrown, its supporters ...
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What would the Vietcong do to the Southern Vietnamese that didn't want to join them?
I have been trying to find out what the North Vietnamese would do to the Southern Vietnamese at the end of the Vietnam War. Everything I search for only talks about the PoWs, not the South Vietnamese.
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When the Chinese were driven out of modern Vietnam in AD 938, did an Vietnamese ethnic identity already exist?
With some periods of interruption, China dominated Vietnam for more than 10 centuries between 111 BC and 938 AD. This wikipedia article and its subsidiary links spoke of sinification and shifting of ...
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What did Pol Pot expect to gain from his raid against Ba Chuc Vietnam in April 1978?
This was a major raid by Khmer Rouge forces over the Vietnamese border, resulting in the deaths of over 3000 Vietnamese.
For more information and details, please see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Did the military industrial complex play a role in LBJ's decision to increase America's involvement in Vietnam?
Path to War (2002) starts with LBJ's election victory in 1964 and shows him making somewhat irrational decisions, against the well-argued advice of some of his advisers, leading to the War in Vietnam.
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Where do I find treaties/acts granting French colonies independence?
I am a History student researching on the history of Indo-China and African countries that were under French colonial rule. I did not find certain treaties like Franco-Lao treaty and others on the ...
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Why did the United States not invade North Vietnam?
The United States was fighting in Vietnam two battles:
The "conventional" NVA (North Vietnamese Army)
An insurgency "guerrilla" organization.
The US tried desperately to stop both, and spend huge ...
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What activity would convey the Burma railway & Hanoi Hilton POW project?
I am a junior in high school, and I have to give a large history exhibition at the end of the year. As my topic, I chose to compare the POW camps following the construction of the Burma railway during ...
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How did Japan successfully conquer Vietnam (Southeast Asia) in WW2?
I've read the obvious wiki article (which is rather small), but did not really find an answer. At the end of the article, it says:
To prepare for an invasion of the Dutch East Indies, some 140,000 ...
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Why is Hue's "Purple Forbidden City" so called?
Within the Imperial City complex in Huế, Vietnam, is a secondary citadel called in English the "Purple Forbidden City". (Or, per some sources, the "Forbidden Purple City.")
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Was there manipulation of racism in the Vietnam war? [closed]
It is fairly well established that racism was taken advantage of by both sides during WW2, especially (from the American perspective) in the Pacific theater (see for example “War without mercy: Race ...
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Why didn't China assist in the Vietnam War like they did in Korea?
In the Korean War (1950 - 1953), China sent in about 1 million troops fairly quickly and actually fought the American and UN forces. In the Vietnam War (1950's - 1975), the only Chinese assistance I ...
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What does the phrase "Vietnam, the mixture of up and down" mean?
I bought this lighter today and it's supposed to be in the style of what soldiers fighting in Vietnam carried. I don't understand the quote on the back, though.
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Did Vietnam suffer a famine any time during the 1980s? And if not, how close was it to famine?
Wikipedia claims that
In 1988, Vietnam suffered a famine that afflicted millions.
But its only citation is this 1988 NYT article that mentions "famine fears".
A 2002 Economist article ...
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Why America waged war against Vietnam? [closed]
First of all I am non American so I am novice in American History ( thats why raising very basic Question ).
I am looking to google for it but everything is too descriptive.
If anybody know very ...
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Percentage of the draft pool that were conscripted during WW2 and Vietnam
During the times of these conflicts I'm pretty sure the eligible ages to be drafted were from 18 - 25. During these times what percentage of US males between those ages were drafted. I'd like to be ...
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Did Ted Nugent dodge the draft?
I've asked whether this is in scope: Are draft-dodgers in scope?. I'm not sure,but I'll crack on anyway.
Too what extent did Ted Nugent dodge the draft for Vietnam. He certainly did receive ...
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Which Japanese military officers helped Ho Chi Minh?
According to Wikipedia, in 1946 during negotiations between the French and Ho Chi Minh,
One demand by the French was the return to French custody of a number of Japanese military officers (who had ...
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Who were some famous Vietnam War Hawks and Doves? [closed]
Who were some famous people who opposed/supported the Vietnam War?
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Why did the French insist on reclaiming Indo-China after WWII?
After WWII France was in rebuilding mode, and yet they insisted on trying to reclaim Indo-China. It would seem that in the new world order this did not make much sense for a country that was trying to ...
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