What happened to lt. colonel peter dewey

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Case Study: This video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross describes the life of Harry Washington, a slave owned by George Washington at the beginning of the American Revolution. Sensing that the talk of liberty and independence was not meant for slaves, Harry Washington joined the Loyalist regiment, the Black Pioneers, along with 20,000 slaves who decided to fight for the British.

"Ho Chi Minh's Quest to End French Colonial Rule" film clip

This film clip is from the Ken Burns and Lynn Novak documentary The Vietnam War. Vietnam had been a colony of France since the 1880s when Japan invaded in 1940 at the beginning of WWII. The film clip focuses on the WWII alliance between a Vietnamese resistance group called the Vietminh, and the United States in fighting against the Japanese occupation. At the end of the war in 1945, the leader of the Vietminh, Ho Chi Minh, declared that Vietnam was an independent nation, invoking the legacy of the American Revolution.

Questions:

  • How did Harry Washington choose to act on his goal of being free?
  • Which army did more enslaved Black men join, the Continental or British army?
  • What was the first thing the Vietminh asked the medic for the OSS team to do?
  • What did Ho chi Minh say that he thought the United States would help Vietnam do?
  • How did the Vietminh respond to the famine in Vietnam during the Japanese occupation?
  • What did Ho Chi Minh quote at the beginning of his speech in the city of Hanoi on September 2, 1945?
  • How did the start of the Cold War, after the end of WWII, impact American support of the Vietnamese independence movement from French colonization?
  • What happened to Lt. Colonel Peter Dewey?
  • What was Dewey's position on Vietnamese independence?

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