Vietnam Struggle
Vietnams unrelenting resistance to foreign intervention remains a dominant Vietnamese historical theme, manifested in the repeated struggle to gain a long term objective through total effort and motivated by just cause. The Vietnamese trace the origins of their culture and nation to the fertile plains of the Red River Delta in North Vietnam. ... The first major threat to Vietnam’s existence as a separate people and nation was the conquest of the Red River Delta by the Chinese under the Han dynasty in 111 B.