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Franklin D. Roosevelt
32d President of the United States
1933 - 1945
President Roosevelt declined repeated requests from the
French to assist their efforts to recolonize Vietnam.
“The right of all peoples to choose the form of
government under which they will live.”
The Atlantic Charter
1941
RECOGNIZED, SIGNED, AND IMPLEMENTED
by
President Roosevelt
He sent members of the Office of Strategic Services
(OSS) to Vietnam in 1944 to train and arm Ho Chi Minh’s
Viet Minh to fight against the Japanese in WWII.
Ho Chi Minh augmented the American fight against Japan
during World War II;
He expected a sovereign Vietnamese nation with American
support.
