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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video looking at the beginning of the First Indochina War. Colonial Indochina to 1945: https://youtu.be/uijOG8oYHgo Angela Davis: https://youtu.be/VMzpkYg6wOY The School of the Americas: https://youtu.be/3tYwj-7b_jU 1950s Hollywood and the Military Industrial Complex: https://youtu.be/OVJ6M2XoFiM 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 **SOURCES** 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.