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It's covered in the PBS documentary, Ho Chi Minh asked Woodrow Wilson for help during the armistice talks for WWI Wilson had proclaimed support for self determi
by stevenwoo 9y ago
It's covered in the PBS documentary, Ho Chi Minh asked Woodrow Wilson for help during the armistice talks for WWI Wilson had proclaimed support for self determination over colonialism, the PBS doc claims Wilson never got Ho Chi Minh's letter, history showed Wilson to be a pretty big racist so he might not have done anything anyways and Wilson was incapacitated for the last years of his presidency as well. Wilson also sent US troops into the USSR to try to stop the Bolshevik revolution so showed his preference towards preserving the old order.
On the other hand it's kind of a crazy what if to imagine there not being a French/US involved civil war in Vietnam.
- cies 9y ago> On the other hand it's kind of a crazy what if to imagine there not being a French/US involved civil war in Vietnam. A lot less bloodshed. Otherwise I expect pretty much similar outcomes. HCM/north winning.
- stevenwoo 9y agoYes, the same winning side. Ho Chi Minh did not want to be as cut throat as the guy ( forget his name ) who outmaneuvered Minh to take control of running the war versus the US. (According to the episodes of the PBS doc I have seen so far).