The rise of decolonization trend and American bluster policy in Vietnam after World War II

Abstract

After the World War II, as a part of the national liberation movement in colonial and dependent nations around the world, the Vietnamese people have successfully carried out the August Revolution, regained the nation’s independence, and overthrew the feudal throne to build the democratic republic. The imperialist countries were not willing to give up the privileges, then, launched warfare to re-establish their lost influence in former colonies. Decolonization trend, thus, continued to emerge and flourished in the former colonial countries during the post-World War II period. Also, in the context of the Cold War extended, a new mode of external intervention in former colonial and dependent countries has formed and increasingly prevailed: Neo-colonialism. This study focuses on analyzing the trend of decolonization and neo-colonialism in Vietnam after World War II.