Woodrow Wilson was a real asshole. If I remember correctly, he was the one who gave Comrade Ho Chi Minh the cold shoulder when he expressed his interest about Vietnamese independence to him.
Woodrow Wilson…Ho Chi Minh? WW was World-War-1 era; the Vietnam war was in the 1960s
Yes. Uncle Ho was active in Vietnamese nationalist/independence movements long before the Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War).
“Minh found himself in Paris with further Vietnamese nationalists in 1919 around the time that Europe was sorting peace terms at the end of the First World War. It was one the 14 points pieced together by US President Woodrow Wilson which inspired Ho Chi Minh to lead his nation to freedom from the French colonial rule. Wilson wrote of how for Europe to rebuild it needed to focus on self-determination. Minh used Wilson’s visit to Paris to try and get the attention of the President to ask for support against the French colonial rule. He was ignored.”
USA propaganda is really impressive, so many people were willing to give them huge credit of trust.
