In addition to being defeated by the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the French decided to cut their relationship to Vietnam as a colonial power because
a. Ho Chi Minh had made a successful appeal to the United Nations.
b. the Chinese came into the war militarily on the side of Vietnam.
c. the United States and Britain agreed to take up the fight for the French.
d. France considered its nationalistic insurgency in Algeria more important that Vietnam.
e. a national vote had elected Ho president of the new Vietnam.
Question 2
The idealistic goal of Mao's Great Leap Forward was based on
a. increasing steel production with government subsidies for building modern steel mills.
b. mechanizing farms by subsidizing farm machinery for peasant farms.
c. the notion that agricultural collectives could serve as a model for industrial development.
d. expanding property rights for the small farmer and shop owner.
e. making China a self-sufficient food producer without ties to global economics.
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