by Ho Chi Minh to try to get Vietnamese independence from the French. 1941 The Viet Minh was a resistance force organized by the Indochinese Communist Party, as a response to an invasion from Japan during World War II. 1945 At the end of World War II, the Viet Minh achieved their goal of gaining Vietnam’s independence. They conquered Hanoi, a Northern Vietnamese city, and declared it as a democratic state with Ho Chi Minh as the president. 1946 French forces attacked Viet Minh in Haiphong
becomes independent in 1945, announced Ho Chi Minh. In 1946, The French seeks colonial power, sparking a war. 8 years later, Viet Minh forces attack an isolated French military outpost and French government agrees to peace talk. The war got started because the U.S military claimed that two navy destroyers got fired with Vietnamese patrol boats. 200,000 American combat troops arrive in South Vietnam. 58,000 Americans died. 1975, President Duong Van Minh surrenders, and South Vietnam take control of
Vietnam War took place long before the war even began. For years, the Vietnamese had been under French colonial rule. But, when Communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh came back to Vietnam, he established a group called the Viet Minh, the goal of which was to remove all French occupation from Vietnam. So, the fighting started, and Ho Chi Minh tried to get the US to support them. But, being true to their policies of containment, the US started supporting France. The United States' thoughts about Communism's
The type of policy known as containment was the foreign policy that the United States of America used between the times of 1947 (two years after World War Two) until 1989 (he fall of the Berlin Wall). The definition of containment in this case is strategies whether it was diplomatically, militarily or economically to contain the forming and progression of communism and to give America an influential advantage abroad. The policy of containment all started out with what was known as the Yalta conference
The Peace treaty signed by the United States and Hanoi did not mean an end to conflict in Vietnam. The Republic of Vietnam, as Nixon saw it, was still the sole legitimate government in South Vietnam. The president of South Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu, even reiterated his four no’s policy soon after the Paris peace agreement. This policy called for “No recognition of the enemy, no coalition government under any disguise, no procommunist of the southern region of Vietnam, and no concession of territory
“In July 1965, Lyndon Johnson chose to Americanize the war in Vietnam.” Although Johnson chose to enter America into the war, there were events previous that caused America to enter and take over the war. The South Vietnamese were losing the war against Communism – giving Johnson all the more reason to enter the war, and allowing strong American forces to help stop communism. There were other contributing factors leading up to the entrance of the war; America helped assist the French in the war
During World War II Japan occupied Vietnam which was French colony. A nationalist movement in Vietnam was sparked by Ho Chi Minh in 1941 to confront the Japanese. In early stages of World War II the United States shared a common enemy with Ho Chi Minh as they both disfavored Japan. At the duration of the World War II Japan began to support Vietnam and ultimately admitted the Vietnamese as an independent country. But the Japanese weren’t
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Morgan Bova Ms. Davis Junior College Prep English 18 April 2018 Title “At the end of WWII, Vietnam was split in two, North and South Vietnam. South Vietnam was a republic, where people voted and practiced all religions, while North Vietnam was a communist country” (Dollard). We sided with the South and agreed to help defend their republic with food aid, education and our military might. We wanted them to win because we wanted to prevent them from become a communist state. “John Foster Dulles