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Ancient Russia:

The Begininings

The early history of Russia, like those of many countries, is one of migrating peoples and ancient kingdoms. Early Russia was not exactly "Russia," but a group of cities that gradually merged into an empire. A group of S

Today we talked a little about semester test items. Then we continued to talk about vietnam.
france not giving Vietnamese freedom cause they are communist.
vietnam was gonna be independent.. then no!
Ho Chi Minh- He was the communist leader, he was an

Ancient Russia- the beginnings- many people migrated and they had ancient kingdoms. Early Russia was not exactly "Russia" but a group of cities that merged into an empire. A group of Scandinavian (varangians)people crossed the Baltic Sea and landed i

Ancient Russia

Russia: The Beginnings

• The early history of Russia, like those of many countries, is one of migrating peoples and ancient kingdoms.
• Early Russia was not exactly “Russia,” but a group of cities that gradually merged into empire.
• A group of

Ancient Russia

Russia: The Beginnings

the early history of Russia, like those of many countries, is one of migrating peoples and ancient kingdoms

early russia was not exactly "Russia," but a group of cities that gradually merged into an empire

a group of

Work day.

i was gone.

The French connection

• France had gained control of Indochina in a series of colonial war
• Ho Chi Minh- Vietnam communist leader
• Geneva Conference-1954
• Vietnam was partitioned temporarily into a Northern and Southern zone of Vietnam at the 17^th parallel
• The

Started on Vietnam

Notes:

• We helped fight off the Vichy French and Japanese during WWII in Vietnam
• Vietnam was split after WWII but not at first; North (communists) vs. the South (USA) at the 17^th Parallel
• Goal of the US was to stop communism from spread

Today, we talked more about the Vietnam War.

-The Vietnam Conflict 1950- 1975

-About Vietnam War

• First televised war
• Perceived it worse than in was
• A lot of US soldiers killed a lot of innocent people
• Fought in the jungle
• People were hard to tell apart
• Ever

Goal of North Vietnam

• United the country under communism

Ho Chi Minh = communist leader in the North; always dressed like a peasant (dressed like the people)

Geneve Conference (1954)

• Vietnam was split into two; north and south at the 17th parrallel line
• D

Talked more about Vietnam War.

Blog discussion for tomorrow.

Vietnam War 1950-1975!

today we talked about the Vietnam war.

We basically took over for the French in the Vietnam War.

We started not involved and it escalated over the years.

War was not declared on Vietnam.

People got out of serving by going to Canada.

We talked about Vietnam War again

The Vietnam Conflict (1950-1975)

The French Connection

• France had gained control of Indochina in a series of colonial wars in the mid-late 1800's
• During World War II, Vichy France worked with Japanese forces in controlli

Geneva Conference 1954

• it set up elections to unify the country by July, 1956
• Elections were never held because neither side wanted to lose

Who Fought?

• The united states armed forces
• The army of the Republic of Viet nam(ARVIN the south Vietnamese Army) vs

Vietnam War Discussion-

• Ho Chi Minh was the communist leader of Vietnam (north)
• Geneva Conference- 1954: Vietnam was Split into two parts along the 17th parallel line.
• President Truman began US involvement by sending money to help the French
• President Ei

Vietnam war

• Goal in US was to stop communist
• Geneva Conference- 1954
  - split Vietnam
• The South and the US fought against the North and Vietcong. 
• Unlike WW2, it was hard to figure out who the bad guys were. They dressed normally.
• Trueman began sending mo