Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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PART I.
VIETNAM AND THE UNITED STATES
1940 – 1950
Foreword
This portion of the study treats U.S. policy towards Vietnam in the decade of World War II and its aftermath. It is subdivided into three essays. Section A describes U.S. policy toward Indochina, and the developing conflict between France and the Viet Minh as viewed from Washington. Section B analyzes the character and power of the Viet Minh and probes the role of Vietnamese communists within the Viet Minh. Section C discusses Ho Chi Minh's political development to assess his potentiality for adopting neutrality in the East-West confrontation. Each monograph is supported by the maps and charts tabulated below.
Section A – U.S. Policy, 1940–1950
Section B – The Character and Power of the Viet Minh
Section C – Ho Chi Minh: Asian Tito?
Maps and Charts
(Blue Tabs)
Cochinchina, Annam, Tonkin
France–Vietnam Relations
Vietnam Nationalist Party
Communist Party, 1921–1931
Communist Party, 1931–1945
Politics in North Vietnam, 1945
Vietnamese Governments, 1945–1949
Viet Political Movements, 1947–1950
Extent Viet Minh Control, 1949
Ho Chi Minh Chronology
