American Experience. Background to the US involvement. Vietnam revision notes (Conflict in Vietnam 1965 ff) French conflict pre 1945. The Origins of the War in Indochina. Pre-WW2 Indochina - The Extraordinary Garden By the mid nineteenth century, the European maritime powers were busy carving up Asia.
Britain, Holland, Portugal and Spain had all grabbed ports, islands and mainland holdings with a fervour similar to feeding sharks. But France, having lost her claim on India at the Battle of Plassey, and with her naval might destroyed in the Napoleonic Wars, lagged seriously behind. By the 1850s, the only South-East Asian states not under colonial rule were Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Siam (Thailand). 5 vIETNAM jensen 10 minute. 3 & 4 vIETNAM jensen 10 minute. 2 vIETNAM jensen 10 minute. 1 vIETNAM jensen 10 minute.