Vietnam lesson 1

• History
• Secondary Education

THE VIETNAM WAR: REVOLUTIONARY

WAR IN INDO-CHINA

Starter:

Create a mindmap on your prior knowledge of the Vietnam War

(Names, dates, countries)

Types of wars

 civil wars; wars between states; guerrilla wars

Civil War

Definition:

A violent conflict within a country fought by organized groups that aim to take power at the center or in a region, or to change government policies

 

 

Defining traits:

• High intensity conflict
  
• Involving regular armed forces
  
• Forces are sustained, organized, and large scale
  
• May result in large numbers of casualties and the consumption of significant resources
  

Roman Civil Wars

(A list of numerous civil wars in the late Roman Republic and in the Roman Empire, between 100 BC and AD 400)

Inca Civil War

(Fought between half-brothers Huáscar and Atahualpa, over succession to the throne of the Inca Empire in )

Lubomirski's rebellion

(A rebellion against Polish King John II Casimir, initiated by the Polish nobleman Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski in 1665-66)

Ndwandwe

Zulu War

(A war fought between the expanding Zulu Kingdom and the Ndwandwe tribe in South Africa in 1817-1819)

Rwandan Civil War

(Was a large-scale civil war in Rwanda which was fought between the Rwandan Armed Forces, representing the country's government, and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) from 1 October 1990 to 18 July 1994)

Conventional Warfare

(War between states)

Defintion

A form of warfare conducted by using conventional weapons and battlefield tactics between two or more states in open confrontation. 

Defining traits:

• Conflict between two or more different states
  
• Well defined military forces on both side
  
• Conventional weapons, and battlefield tactics

World War I

(A global conflict from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918 that left unprecedented destruction and death, with millions of people killed)

World War II

(A global war which lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers)

Russo Ukrainian War

(Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists in the war in Donbas against Ukrainian government forces; fighting for the first eight years of the conflict also included naval incidents, cyberwarfare, and heightened political tensions. Throughout 2021, bilateral tensions rose due to a Russian military buildup near the border with Ukraine, and on 24 February 2022, the conflict saw a major escalation as Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Guerilla War

Definition:

A form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility, to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.

•  Use of a small attacking, mobile force against a large, unwieldy force

• Largely or entirely organized in small units that are dependent on the support of the local population
  
• Focus on avoiding head-on confrontations with enemy armies
  
• Guerrilla tactics are rarely used for anything other than defence
  

Defining traits

 Anglo-Irish War

(A guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary (USC). It was part of the Irish revolutionary period)

Vietnam War

(The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam)

3.1 Causes of the Vietnam War

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• While reading, write down names and dates
  
• Fill out the following list while reading
  

Long-term causes

Short-term causes

Now go over the causes (both long and short-term) and divide them into the following categories:

Economic

Ideological

Political

Territorial

Other causes 

*Motivate why the cause belongs in this category