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Vad kallas Vietnamkriget i Vietnam?
Kriget slutade med att Vietnam delades upp i två stater – det socialistiska Nordvietnam och det antikommunistiska Sydvietnam. Det sistnämnda stöttades av USA i vad vi kallar Vietnamkriget, men som i Vietnam kallas Det amerikanska kriget.
Hur styrdes Sydvietnam?
Sydvietnam var en starkt centraliserad stat som var styrd på alla nivåer av den sydvietnamesiska militären. Regionala befälhavare var ansvariga inför president Diem men var förbjudna att samarbeta med varandra.
Vem koloniserade Vietnam?
1867 hade Frankrike koloniserat hela södra Vietnam. Framryckningen fortsatte och 1885 var resten av landet internationellt erkänt som ett franskt protektorat. 1902 slogs Vietnam ihop med de franska besittningarna Laos och Kambodja till Indokinesiska unionen.
Who was the best president in Vietnam?
President Richard Nixon mingling with a crowd of U.S. soldiers during a surprise visit to a war zone in South Vietnam, 1969. Arthur Schatz/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Richard Nixon
Who are the present leaders of Vietnam?
– Both sent their children to the West, to study, so they could come back and develop the country – Both have a case of Brain Drain- where the talented, western educated don’t return home, instead being of benefit to only foreign nations – Both have similiar levels of corruption – Both have Market Economies
What president decided to take troops out of Vietnam?
Professor Galbraith is correct [Letters, NYR, December 6, 2007] that “there was a plan to withdraw US forces from Vietnam, beginning with the first thousand by December 1963, and almost all of the rest by the end of 1965…. President Kennedy had approved that plan. It was the actual policy of the United States on the day Kennedy died.
What presidents served during the Vietnam War?
Trump “was never a fan” of Vietnam.