The Cold War

Currently Playing: How 1949 and the Cold War Internationalized the First Indochina War

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video looking at the the year 1949 and how the Cold War helped to internationalize the Vietnamese struggle against the French, brining in the support of China, the Soviet Union, and the United States, helping to convert a minor war of liberation on the periphery into a major focus of Cold War politics. This is part three of a multipart series...watch the first episodes here: Colonial Indochina to 1945: https://youtu.be/uijOG8oYHgo First Indochina War pt. 1: https://youtu.be/V9wSqx0W8h0 Alcohol Prohibition in the USSR https://youtu.be/kyPdGderIxk Cocaine and Cartels: https://youtu.be/A9VA51N-Ug4 International Terrorism: https://youtu.be/VqHMjA35aLM Liberation Theology: https://youtu.be/Dfu2I_LTKt4 Iranian Nuclear Program: https://youtu.be/ZrNNeS31lNg Angela Davis: https://youtu.be/VMzpkYg6wOY The School of the Americas: https://youtu.be/3tYwj-7b_jU Birth of the Military Industrial Complex: https://youtu.be/8glmBbBENlk America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: https://youtu.be/iXSSCdlTst4 How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed: https://youtu.be/UHIsdbvsuOY How the American Political Parties Switched Their Ideologies https://youtu.be/SdcreXEWzG0 How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #Indochina #Vietnam #france #US #cambodia #China #PRC #indochinawar **SOURCES** https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/ch5subch4 Mark Atwood Lawrence “The Vietnam War - A Concise History”, Oxford University Press, 2008 Fredrik Logevall, “The Origins of the Vietnam War”, Routledge, 2001 Fredrik Logevall, “Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam”, Random House, 2012 Edward Miller, “Points of Departure - The Global and local Origins of the Vietnam War”, in The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 8-23. Liam Kelley, “Memory, Tradition and the History of Vietnam”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 27-43. Hue-Tam Ho Tai, “The origins of the Vietnamese Revolution”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 44-65. Pierre Brocheaux, “Ho Chi Minh and the Rise of the Vietnamese Communist Party”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 66-83. Eric Jennings, “Indochina During World War II”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward Miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 84-105. Stein Tonnesson, “The August Revolution of 1945”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 106-126. David Marr, “The Birth of the DRV”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward Miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 127-153 Pierre Grosser, “France’s Indochina War”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward Miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 154-172. https://indochine.uqam.ca/en/historical-dictionary/583-herault-massacre.html Christopher Goscha, “The Penguin History of Vietnam”, 2016. Pham Duc Thuan and Tran Minh Thuan, “The first Indochina war (1946-1954) and the Geneva agreement (1954), Cogent Arts & Humanities, vol 11, no. 1, June 10, 2024. Vo Nguyen Giap, “Peoples War Peopls Army”, Marxists Internet Army, 2014 Tuong Vo, "Vietnam's Communist Revolution”, Cambridge University Press, 2016 Max Hastings, “Vietnam: AN Epic Tragedy”, Harper Collins, 2018 https://newsletter.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/nl-82/bassino/