Labels:text | screenshot | person | poster | horse OCR: THE VIETNAM WAR OVERVIEW OVERVIEW INTRODUCTION 1 ORIGINS COURSE OF THE WAR HUMAN COST KEY PLAYERS Viet Minh soldiers parade in the streets of Communist Hanoi 1: FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE In 1945 the Viet Minh, a Vietnamese nationalist group led by the Communist Ho Chi Minh, declared Vietnam an independent republic. France, the colonial power, struggled to reassert its authority. At the end of 1946 war broke out between the French and the Viet Minh. CHRONOLOGY NEWSFLASH ..
