Ho's speech proclaiming Vietnam's independence contains a demand that the free world support that independence in part as payment for services rendered during World War 2. What 'service' did Vietnam render during that conflict?

Ho Chi Minh claims that Vietnam's independence is consistent with the philosophical principles which the Allies claimed were paramount during World War II. To what principles was he referring, and does he make references to occasions where those principles were reasserted?

Answer rating: 100% (QA)

Office of Strategic Services OSS In the mid1940s the Viet Minh leadership under Ho Chi Minh looked to the West for help in its independence movement a... View the full answer