How the First Indochina War Began: The Colonial Period - The Cold War DOCUMENTARY

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War begins an in-depth examination of the Cold War in Southeast Asia by looking at a history of the region up to 1945, including the French colonial period and the Second World War.

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*SOURCES*
Mark Atwood Lawrence “The Vietnam War - A Concise History”, Oxford University Press, 2008

Fredrik Logevall, “The Origins of the Vietnam War”, Routledge, 2001

Fredrik Logevall, “Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam”, Random House, 2012

Christopher Goscha, "The Road to Dien Bien Phu", Princeton University Press, 2022

Edward Miller, “Points of Departure - The Global and local Origins of the Vietnam War”, in The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 8-23.

Liam Kelley, “Memory, Tradition and the History of Vietnam”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 27-43.

Hue-Tam Ho Tai, “The origins of the Vietnamese Revolution”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 44-65.

Pierre Brocheaux, “Ho Chi Minh and the Rise of the Vietnamese Communist Party”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 66-83.

Eric Jennings, “Indochina During World War II”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 84-105.

Stein Tonnesson, “The August Revolution of 1945”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 106-126.