By Amber Solberg & Dan Ector

The French were occupying parts of Vietnam

Famine Japanese forces occupying Vietnam World wide economic depression

Nationalism & Communism Killed a lot of people Ruthless leader Guerilla war fare

Died of heart failure Died six years before the end of the war

Ho Chi Minh city

Social Orientated Market Economy President Nguyen Minh Triet

They were already occupied by another country & they needed a strong dictatorship in order to stop the famine.

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