![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite increasing demands from the Vietnamese populace and its leaders, the relationship between Vietnam and its French colonial overlords remained a relatively stable one until World War II. President Woodrow Wilson so he could present to him "The Demands of the Vietnamese People." Having been refused an audience with Wilson, Ho began to develop and refine his philosophy of "Vietnamese nationalism" which would shape the country's identity, igniting the eventual military conflicts with the French and, later, the Americans. In 1919, future Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, under an alias, traveled to Paris during the Versailles Peace Conference in hopes of meeting U.S. The colonialist framework, however, began to show signs of fracture in the wake of World War I. This territory came to be known in the West as Indochina. In 1884, France colonized Vietnam along with neighboring countries Laos and Cambodia in subsequent years. The true roots of the Vietnam War, Logevall writes, stretch back even further than 1919. ![]() For Embers of War, Logevall was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History. Swedish-American author and historian Fredrik Logevall’s non-fiction book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (2012) details the historical roots of the American conflict with Vietnam, tracing them back to the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference up until 1959, the year America suffered its first military casualties in Vietnam. ![]()
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