Vietnam Comic
Storyboard Description
This comic tells the tale of the Vietnam being victorious over the French through the eyes of Hung Le, a man who saw it all go down.
Storyboard Text
- We thought there was hope...
- A Way To Bounce BackBy: Josiah Smith
- Ho, meanwhile, consolidated power, jailing or executing thousands of opponents. He also appealed several times for U.S. help, but to no avail.
- “If we must fight, we will fight. We will lose 10 men for every one you lose, but in the end it is you who will tire.”
- French negotiators
- Ho’s troops withdrew to the mountains. Led by General Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietminh harassed the French soldiers with a ragtag array of
- Until the French Came. They stormed us, determined to regain control of the colony.
- By 1950, the French war in Vietnam had become a battleground in a much larger struggle.
- Vietnam 1945-1954
- But Ho never gave up.
- Even $2.5 billion of U.S. aid did not keep the French from wearing down, just as Ho had predicted.
- French, American, and Japanese weapons. Moving through familiar terrain, supported by a network of friendly villages, the Vietnamese struck, then disappeared into the jungle.
- We learned a very valuable lesson that day
- This didn't actually happen!
- China, where revolution had just brought Communists to power, and the Soviet Union were supplying the Vietminh with weapons. The U.S., committed to containing the spread of Communism, backed the French.
- The final blow came in 1954, when General Giap surrounded 15,000 French troops holed up near the remote mountain town of Dien Bien Phu. After two months of fighting in the spring mud, the French were exhausted and Dien Bien Phu fell. Reluctantly, they agreed to leave Vietnam for good.
- We learned that no matter how hard or even impossible it seems, there will always be a way to bounce back
- ket thuc
- Waaaahhhhh!
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