Vietnam War

Vietnam has been the puppet for many dominating countries. For hundreds of years it has been under control of China then in 1860, France had control. In WWII, Japan had seized the area but the Vietnamese had fought against the Japanese for their independence. After WWII, France tried to regain Vietnam again but France lost the fight and left a buffer zone separating the North and South Vietnamese. The Vietnamese started to set up a form of government. The communist regime set up its headquarters in Hanoi under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh. Many North Vietnamese fled to the south where Ngo Dinh Diem formed the Republic of Vietnam.

Between 1955 and 1960. the North Vietnamese with the assistance of the southern communist Vietcong, tried to take over the government in South Vietnam, and in November 1963 President Diem was overthrown and executed. The following year, the North Vietnamese began a massive drive to conquer the whole country aided by China and Russia.

Fearing a communist takeover of the entire region, the United States grew more and more wary of the progress of Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong. Communism had become the evil menace in the United States and with expansion of Soviet rule into Eastern Europe, Korea and Cuba, the Americans were bent on stopping communism from spreading any further.

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