French Indochina

French Indochina

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  French Indochina 1200 CE 1200 CE 1900 CE
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  Where is Indochina?
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  Overview 939 Development of a National Identity 1870 French Control Japanese Control 1890-1940 1940-1945 1945 Attempts to gain independence Proclamation of Independence Ho Chi Minh War with France Geneva Agreements 1954 Division of Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem and the Vietcong Involvement of the American forces 1968 Communist drive to reunify Vietnam Communist Success 1975 Reunification of Vietnam
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  Key Terms • Imperialism • Nationalism • Colonialism • Militarism • Oppression • Rebellion • Guerrilla Warfare • Decolonisation
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  Term ‘Indochina’ refersto the mixture of Indian and Chinese cultures in the region Origin of Vietnam is China, Cambodia (Khmer) is India and Lao is from China’s Yunnan province. The three countries have never formed a single nation.
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  The Chinese introducedConfucianism to Vietnam and the code of respect for authority, duty to family, and a desire for learning. Buddhism also came from China and also India with an emphasis on withdrawing from the material world
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  Cooperative Society The Vietnamese economy is based on the wet rice farming of China which requires cooperative labour.
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  Cooperative farms ledto village formation. Villages were the basis of Vietnamese society.Villages would later link to resist foreign invasion. This also led to a sense of identity. China dominated Vietnam for nearly a thousand years. Vietnam’s ancient name, Annam, is Chinese for ‘pacified south’.
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  Vietnam became dominated by Chinese civilisation. Rebellions were crushedbut it did lead to a sense of nationalism Independence was finally achieved from China in 938.
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  Europeans travelled toVietnam in the 16th Century. The Vietnamese resisted attempts to establish any permanent control. Roman Catholic missionaries had some success and many Vietnamese adopted Christianity. Many Catholic priests became village leaders. Christianity undermined the Vietnamese beliefs in ancestor worship and the sacredness of land
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  Missionaries disrupted thelifestyle of traditional Vietnam. During the 16th Century Vietnam fell apart. Competing families engaged in power struggles that carved up the country and led to north-south rivalry. After many years of conflict, the Nguyen dynasty reunified Vietnam after the defeat of other groups.
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  Revolts against theNguyen dynasty were frequent and brutal actions such as execution were used to establish control. Under Napoleon III the French intervened and began their century of occupation. Napoleon III (Napoleon’s nephew)
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  In 1859, inorder to protect persecuted Catholic missionaries, the French invaded Annam By 1867 they had conquered the south, which became the French colony of Cochin China. By 1885, they had established protectorates over central Vietnam (Annam) and the north (Tonkin) as well.
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