can someone give me a brief outline of modern history, independence and achievements of Vietnam?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam#History go look at this site. I'm Vietnamese and just moved here 5 years ago. According to the news, Vietnam is a growing country. Our President George Bush visited Vietnam (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/11/19/bush.asia.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories).  We got our independence from the French but i do not recall the year. The Vietnamese contributed music, culture, and food as their achievements to America. (http://www.vietamreview.net/)
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Please go here:\nhttp://www.cut-the-knot.org/recurrence/hanoi.shtml
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The Velvet revolution if I'm not mistaken led by the great man, Vaclav Havel, to free the Czechs from Soviet rule. Czechoslovakia became independent and then through a referendum became 2 separate nations - The Czech Republic and Slovakia.\n\nDo some research on Havel and the Prague uprising of 1968
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This is what I thought was a stumper until I Googled it. Then I found a lot of information. \n\nThe law generally states:\n\n1) Arranged marriages are abolished, which allowed men and women freedon to make their own decisions as to who they may marry.\n2) Polygamy was declared illegal\n3) Equality among men and women in the home and society was to be practiced\n4) Basic rights of women and children were to be protected\n\nHere's some references that I found that was a very intersting read:\n\nhttp://issues.families.com/vietnam-1697-1701-iemf
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you can surely visit google to know more.....\ntry the pdf search so that you get even the slightest of the details
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http://www.vietnampix.com/\nhttp://vietnam.vassar.edu/\n\nHope the help you out some!
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Well, currently the EU has an embargo agains all Vietnamese textiles and shoes. That's about all I know
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The official end of the Vietnam War was April 30th, 1975 just before noon Saigon time when the South Vietnamese president abdicated to NVA troops at the presidential palace. \n\nThe beginning of the war is much more difficult to pin point because there were consistent conflicts in Vietnam since WWII when the Japanese invaded. American history books often consider the Gulf of Tonikan incident in 1964 as the official start of the war, but there is clear evidence that American military forces were involved in Vietnam as early as 1954.
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Basically, it was a failure (like today's war in Iraq) and many American soldiers' lives were lost.\n\nThe Vietnam War or Second Indochina War 1 was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the National Liberation Front (NLF, or "Viet Cong") against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies — notably the United States military in support of the South, with US combat troops involved from shortly after the Korean War until the official withdrawal in 1975.\n\nAfter France's attempted recolonization of Indochina was defeated in 1954 by the Viet Minh at the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, an agreement to temporarily partition the country in two with a de-militarized zone (DMZ) was reached at the Geneva Conference (1954). The "Vietnam War" ostensibly began as a civil war between feuding governments. Being Western-oriented and far less popular than Hồ Chí Minh's northern rebellion, the South Vietnam government fought largely to maintain its governing status within the partitioned entity, rather than to "unify the country" as was the goal of the North. Fighting began in 1957 and with U.S. and Soviet-Chinese involvement would steadily escalate and spill over into the neighboring Indochinese countries of Cambodia and Laos.\n\nThe Geneva partition was not a natural division of Vietnam and was not intended to create two separate countries. But the South government, with the support of the United States, blocked the Geneva scheduled elections for reunification. In the context of the Cold War, and with the recent Korean War as a precedent, the U.S. had feared that a reunified Vietnam would elect a Communist government under the popular Hồ Chí Minh. South Vietnam and its Western allies portrayed the conflict as based in a principled opposition to communism —to deter the expansion of Soviet-based control throughout Southeast Asia, and to set the tone for any likely future superpower conflicts. The North Vietnamese government and its Southern dissident allies (NLF) viewed the war as a struggle to reunite the country and to repel a foreign aggressor —a virtual continuation of the earlier war for independence against the French.\n\nAfter fifteen years of protracted fighting and massive civilian and military casualties, major direct U.S. involvement ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973. Fighting between Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces against the dominant combined People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and NLF forces would soon bring an end to the RVN and the war. With the Northern victory, the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) with a communist-controlled government based in the new capital Hanoi.\n\nThis is just a brief summary. For more information on the Vietnam War, go to:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
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Independence of China: 221 BC (unification under the Qin or Ch'in Dynasty); 1 January 1912 (Manchu Dynasty replaced by a Republic); 1 October 1949 (People's Republic established)\n\nMore on this link: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2088.html\n\nScroll down to China and click the link.  It will direct you to more info.
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This may seem too simple, but the best way to find the information that you're looking for is to talk to other Vietnam Vets. Good places to find them is at a local VFW or a Veteran's hospital. \n\nMy father server in Vietnam as well, and has only recently opened up about what happened to him there. I've herd the same happening with many other Vietnam Vets too. Something about the recent Iraq War has triggered many of them to talk after more than 30 years of wanting to forget about what happened. \n\nI have family in Vietnam to include uncles that served on both sides of the war. They seem to be easier about letting the past go than the American veterans. One of my uncles served almost ten years in a communist prison, had all his arms and legs broken many times and had his eye ripped out of his head. Even he has let the war go into the past. \n\nAnotehr good place to look is the Internet. There are hundreds of Web sites that haev very good information about the Vietnam War with the ones supported by veterans having the most accurate information. Don't bother with the government supported sites - they're still lying aobut what happened. \n\nGood luck with your reseasrch!
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Apparently our current one.  Remark about the lessons of Vietnam: \n\n'WE WILL WIN UNLESS WE QUIT.'
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Some info is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War#Relationship_between_the_two_sides_since_1950
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What's the Vietnamese SSEAYP? Please describe your question more.
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http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
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End of War?\nApril 23, 1975 - President Gerald Ford gave a speech on declaring the end of the Vietnam War and the end of all U.S. aid to the Saigon regime.\n\nApril 30, 1975 - At 8:35 a.m., the last Americans, ten Marines from the embassy, depart Saigon, concluding the United States presence in Vietnam. North Vietnamese troops pour into Saigon and encounter little resistance. By 11 a.m., the red and blue Viet Cong flag flies from the presidential palace. President Minh broadcasts a message of unconditional surrender. The war is over.\n\nHowever, the last official U.S. battle in the conflict was on May 15, 1975 when 18 soldiers were killed on the last day of a rescue operation known as the Mayagüez incident involving a skirmish with the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Those soldiers are listed last on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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Have a look through these links and see if anyone stands out.\n\nUnited States in Vietnam 1945-1975\nComprehensive Timelines with Quotes and Analysis\n\nhttp://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index.html\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/\n\nhttp://www.vietnampix.com/\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/vietnam.html\n\nIn the 1950's the United States began to send troops to Vietnam. During the following 25-years the ensuing war would create some of the strongest tensions in US history. Almost 3 million US men and women were sent thousands of miles to fight for what was a questionable cause. In total, it is estimated that over 2,5 million people on both sides were killed.\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VietnamWar.htm\n\nADDITIONAL VIETNAM LINKS ON THE WEB\n\nhttp://www.multied.com/vietnam/Links.html\n\nAnti War Movement.\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/27942/indexf.htm\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.