Did China support the North Vietnamese?

China and the Soviet Union provided massive military and economic aid to North Vietnam, which enabled North Vietnam to fight first the French and then the Americans. Chinese aid to North Vietnam between 1950 and 1970 is estimated at $20 billion.

What were the effects of innovation on the Chinese economy over time?

China’s economic success resulted from various technological innovations that allowed China to produce and trade foods and goods more quickly and efficiently. Chinese technological innovation during this period reshaped the world as technological advances diffused west along international trade routes.

What were the effects of the Cultural Revolution in China?

Deng regained power in 1977 and would maintain control over Chinese government for the next 20 years. Some 1.5 million people were killed during the Cultural Revolution, and millions of others suffered imprisonment, seizure of property, torture or general humiliation.

How did the Vietnam War affect China’s strategic interests?

Although it was a regional conflict that occurred on the Indochinese Peninsula, it also affected the strategic interests of the People’s Republic of China, the United States and the Soviet Union as well as the relations between these great powers. China, in particular, also played an important role in the Vietnam wars during 1950~1975.

What was life like for farmers in North Vietnam?

Forced to stay in cooperatives, the free farmers of North Vietnam were turned into a kind of serfs or indentured workers. They were chronically hungry and occasionally threatened by famines. Antiwar activists misunderstood the nature of the Vietnamese revolution, but proponents of intervention fared no better.

What motivated the North Vietnamese to become revolutionary?

During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese revolutionaries were commonly portrayed either as dominoes in the game of big powers or as essentially nationalists who inherited a tradition of patriotism and were motivated by national independence—but the North Vietnamese were in fact radicals who dedicated their careers to realizing a communist utopia.

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