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Apple QuickTime movie  |  1996-06-28  |  3.2 MB  |  400x280  |  5fps  |  4 minutes, 2 seconds  |  [MooV/TVOD]
Transcription: In the 30 years before the end of World War II in 1975, two wars were fought on the sliver of Southeast Asian coastline known as Vietnam. The first war was a struggle between Vietnamese nationalists and the French colonial regime. That ended in 1954 with Vietnam split between the communist north and the pro-western south. In the second conflict known as the Vietnam War, The United States replaced France as the chief Western power arrayed against the communist regime of the North, headed by Ho Chi Minh. Ho, supported by China and the Soviet Union, had successfully ousted the French and was prep ...