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independence from the French government. They were lead by Ho Chi Minh. Minh was a socialist who was supported by China, the Soviet Union, and Vo Nguyen Giap a Vietnamese general. Together they fought the French government who was allied with Emperor Bao Dai in the First Indochina War. The war lasted from 1946, a year after Vietnam declared an unrecognized independence, to 1954 when Vietnam officially gained independence from France. The war did not go large scale until 1949 when communist Chinese forces

had heavy financial support from the US to help fix Vietnam, much of which has been destroyed in the war. His immediate task was to crush his rivals; this included two religious sects; the Cao Dai and Hoa Hao, which he destroyed with military offensives and bribes. Also his firing line was emperor Bao Dai, who he got rid of by rigging a referendum. Diem promoted members of his family into high government positions, which lead to more of a mess than

The Vietnam War (1955-1975), was a conflict between the communist north and the United States backed south. This war claimed over 3,000,000 lives including an estimated 58,000 Americans and over half of the remaining being Vietnamese civilians. The American population would divide over opinions of U.S. involvement in this conflict and lead to many protests and civil unrest. Throughout the course of this war, the Air Defense Artillery was a cornerstone of U.S. force’s capability and helped shift

approach to prevent the uprising of a Communist regime, all making the situation worse than it had previously been. Following WWII, Ho Chi Minh created the Vietminh to fight of Japanese and French forces. Japan withdrew from Vietnam in 1945 and Emperor Bao Dai was left in control

becoming independent from Imperial China in 938 AD, Vietnam’s capital was “Đại La”, where it was located in

The Vietnam war had a couple different events and groups of people like the Ho Chi Minh, the causes of the war, and the soldiers of the Vietnam war. The end of the Vietnam war was a major event in the war. The U.S introduced a foreign policy towards north Vietnam. The Vietnam war was not for the United States to enter the Vietnam war the president for the United States was Franklin Roosevelt then George Washington. The country Vietnam was roughly 127,000 square miles (about the size of New Mexico)

Japan withdrew its forces from Vietnam, leaving emperor Bao Dai in total control. Seeing this as an opportunity, he made the Viet Minh forces rise up, taking control of the northern city of Hanoi and declaring it a democratic republic with himself as president. Both communist North and neutral South Vietnam simply wanted Vietnam to be unified as one again. This was quickly shut down as Ho and his supporters wanted a communist nation so Bao pleaded for a Vietnam with close economic and cultural ties

Throughout Vietnam's long history, in result of western colonialism, plenty of western powers have always been implementing what was best for the Vietnamese people. Being that, when the Indochina war erupted in Vietnam it lead the French to evacuate, which resulted in Vietnam being its own independent country. Tensions between both North and South Vietnam started to build over which government should be established, communism or democracy. Paired with the book The Quiet American, a novel based on

The Vietnam War started November 1, 1955 and ended April 30, 1975. This war began due to the United States wanting containment to stop the inevitable spread of communism. The Vietnam War arose because of what had unraveled throughout the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Vietnam was fought by North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong. North Vietnam essentially wanted the country to be under communist rule but South Vietnam wanted the country to be allied closely with the

The Short-lived Corrupt Regime of Ngo Dinh Diem Ngo Dinh Diem was sent into Vietnam two weeks before the signing of the Geneva Accords as the Prime Minister of the new government in Saigon, appointed by Bao Dai in June of 1954. He claimed that the only guaranteed resolution to a noncommunist government was a Catholic. Catholicism was a minority privileged sector of South Vietnam society which made U.S. officials apprehensive. Notably Diem had influential connections in Washington who advocated insistently