1. Cold War’s Impact on the Vietnam War Ms. George

2. Vietnam War Explanation of Event “Formerly a French colony, Vietnam was occupied by Japan during the Second World War. After the conflict, the victorious Allies decided to split Vietnam, and allowed France to retake control of its former imperial possession. In September 1945 the Vietminh, a communist influenced independence movement led by the charismatic Ho Chi Minh, issued a declaration of independence, modelled on the United States' own Declaration. So began the first Indochina War, a conflict between the Vietminh and the French that would last for eight years. The Vietnamese nationalists successfully drove the French out of North Vietnam in 1954, after their victory at the Dien Bien Phu, but the war had increasingly become an issue of wider international significance. This was largely thanks to the support received by Ho Chi Minh from communist China, and the corresponding involvement of the United States, who by the end of the conflict were contributing over eighty percent of the costs of the French military inVietnam.” Vietnamese communists trying to become independent from the French after previous occupations from the Japanese and French. US supporting French military costs.

3. Vietnam War Timeline (1945-1965) Important Dates 1945-1954 1 st Indochina War (Vietminh and the French) Vietnamese drove out French out of N. Vietnam

4. Countries Involved in Vietnam War

5. Describe Vietnam War Important Events

6. Correlation Vietnam War to Cold War

7. How significant was the Vietnam War to the Cold War?

8. Important Historical figures in the Vietnam War Ho Chi Minh leads the Vietnamese to obtain independence

9. Visuals of the Vietnam War

10. Primary Source from the Vietnam War

11. Relevant Video Clip on Vietnam War’s correlation with the Cold War

12. Map of Vietnam War

13. Works Cited Copied from export from Word from Noodletools "War in Vietnam, 1945-65." History Study Centre. ProQuest LLC. 2010. Web. 30 May 2013

14. Make Index Cards If you have too many words on a slide, write them on an index card and you can mention those words during your presentation.