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steve2470

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Fri May 8, 2015, 11:54 AM May 2015

President Woodrow Wilson ignores petition by Ho Chi Minh for help in creating Vietnam.... [View all]

Wilson ignores petition by Ho Chi Minh for help in creating Vietnam independent from French rule and led by nationalist government.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of_the_United_States_in_the_Vietnam_War

and

D. R. Sar Desai, Vietnam: The Struggle for National Identity (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), p. 50


Interesting tidbit I found.

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