French colonization played a huge role in the spread of...

French colonization played a huge role in the spread of communism in Vietnam, due to poor treatment. I’m writing about this topic because as Americans we know communism is wrong. Yet, I feel that it’s important for people to know why the Vietnamese people were communist and how it came about. French colonization lead to many rebellions in Vietnam. Since the Vietnamese people were in such a bad state and wanted to be liberated they turned to communism. The Vietnamese rebellions used communism to unite the people and push forth their rebellion. The French’s began to colonize Vietnam in 1874. The Vietnamese people gave the French a hard time during the â€Å"Pacification Period.† During this time the French tried to gain control of†¦show more content†¦The death of the man who betrayed Nghi started another uprising in Annam but this soon ended as well. The resistance in Tongking did not last as long as the resistance in Annam. The French were able to actually gain support in Tonking because they got rid of all the pirates there. In Tongking movement was never made to coordinate resistance under a central leadership. The rebels fought their own local wars. The French made deals with the rebel chiefs giving them the right to levy taxes and keep armies to stop the opposition of the Regime. Some of these Rebels became collaborates with the French, until the French were able to destroy them. Nothing in these rebellions were won or learned for either the French or the Vietnamese. The year 1900 became a point of departure in Vietnams political history. The French failed to realize their victory was only temporary. Leadership in Vietnam was now under new men. These men wanted to replace to have a legitimate national ruler who was able to combine Vietnamese values with western ideas. This identification only satisfied the countries elite though and not it’s peasants. The peasants only supported the elites because they had no other choice. The Ruler that first did this was a man named Phan Boi Chau. Chau began his political career in 1900. He was the first prominent Vietnamese nationalist. He figured Asia would always be victim of the west if they did not use western Ideas. After the warShow MoreRelatedOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagesreturn to trends reminiscent of the opening decades of the twentieth century and a major break from the prevailing dynamics of the cold war. In addition to the problems posed for conceptualizing the twentieth century as a discrete era of world history due to overlap with the preceding period and disconcertingly radical shifts in the course of global development in the 1900s, contradictory forces and trends, which perhaps more than any other attribute distinguish this turbulent phase of the human experience