In the purple book, read pages 655 and 656. Then answer the following questions.
1. Why did the French come to Vietnam?
2. What did they want?
1. Why did the French come to Vietnam?
2. What did they want?
Below is Mao Zedong's book of strategies that Northern Vietminh used to fight the french.
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General Vo Nguyen Giap, the Viet Minh’s military leader in the First Indochina War. -
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See more at: http://alphahistory.com/vietnam/first-indochina-war/#sthash.hvDrxbWj.dpuf
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3. Who and how did the Americans help?