During the late nineteenth century the French concouquered Vietnam and made it a protectorate and in 1941 the league for the independence of Vietnam (Viet Minh) was formed to fight for independence from the French and on Sept. 2nd .1945. Ho chi Minh proclaimed it independent from France. The French opposed this and wanted to re-establish their rule but where defeated on the battlefield by the Viet Min and where forced to surrender this ended a war …
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…made their voice's be heard, while knowing what was wrong as well as what needed to make something right. There is no doubt about the large roll in the peace process which all the students, activist groups, hippies, and all those others that like peace played. By 1969 combat on the field had decreased very quickly as American troops where evacuated and returned home to a country which would never be the same to them again.