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Sat Feb-19-05 10:39 PM
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Who, what, or where is Dien Bien Phu and why should you know the |
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Edited on Sat Feb-19-05 10:49 PM by illini
significance of said person, play, or thing?
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Sat Feb-19-05 10:42 PM
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1. A place. Go ask the French, then google Viet Nam War. |
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Sat Feb-19-05 10:49 PM
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2. France's last stand in French Indochina |
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One of my earlier political memories ;'54 I think.
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Sat Feb-19-05 10:51 PM
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Its also a lesson on what a determined indigenous people can do to an colonial occupation force.
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Sat Feb-19-05 10:56 PM
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4. "Some say" that Eisenhower |
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offered the A bomb to FR. true?
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Sat Feb-19-05 11:02 PM
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the French asked us and Eisenhower turned them down.
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Sat Feb-19-05 11:14 PM
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6. an historical example of the consequences of underestimating an enemy |
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akin to Darius at Marathon, or the French at Agincourt.
Pride cometh before a fall.
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Sun Feb-20-05 01:16 AM
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7. Major defeat for the French in Indochina by the Viet minh forces... |
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battle lasted from March 13 - May 8, 1954...some almost 12000 French troops were taken prisoner. It essentially ended French colonial rule in Indo-china.
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