Mercilessly slain our patriots, they have drowned uprisings in rivers of blood. They have built more prisons than schools. Had listed their grievances against the English King, the Vietnamese listed their complaints against Rights among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." Just as the Americans in 1776 They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable It borrowed from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, in the French Revolution, and from the American Declaration of Independence,Īnd began: "All men are created equal. Were gone held a spectacular celebration in Hanoi in late 1945, with a million people in the streets, and issued a Declaration of Independence. Led by aĬommunist named Ho Chi Minh, the revolutionists fought against the Japanese, and when they In the meantime, a revolutionary movement had grown there,ĭetermined to end colonial control and to achieve a new life for the peasants of Indochina. In the fall of 1945 Japan, defeated, was forced to leave Indochina, the former French colony it had It was another startling fact of the sixties. Nation had ever experienced, a movement that played a critical part in bringing the war to an end. In the course of that war, there developed in the United States the greatest antiwar movement the Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human Revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country-and failed. Maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a
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