Capture of Viet Minh Guerrilla
Terrorism and Anticolonial Conflicts: Vietnam and France
Photograph
Date: November 18, 1950
Source: The Associated Press
About the Photographer: The Associated Press is an international wire service that provides news and photographs to media outlets around the world.
INTRODUCTION
For over a century, the Vietnamese resisted foreign domination of their country. In the mid-nineteenth century, after the French established a foothold in southern Vietnam (which they called Cochin China), they encountered resistance from local Vietnamese officials, who refused to submit. Later, after the French expanded into central Vietnam (which they called Annam) and northern Vietnam (called Tonkin) and established Vietnam as a protectorate in 1883, insurgent peasants joined the nation's educated elite in a guerrilla war...
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