The Vietnam war

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 The Vietnam War was a lengthy, expensive, and controversial battle that pitted North Vietnam's communist government against South Vietnam and its main ally, the US. The ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union exacerbated the issue. The Vietnam War claimed the lives of approximately 3 million people, including over 58,000 Americans, with Vietnamese civilians accounting for more than half of those murdered.

Even after President Richard Nixon signed the Paris Peace Accords and ordered the evacuation of US forces in 1973, opposition to the war in the United States remained fierce. In 1975, communist forces took control of South Vietnam, and the country was unified the following year as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Roots in the Vietnam war

Since the 19th century, France has ruled over Vietnam, a Southeast Asian country on the eastern side of the Indochinese peninsula.

Japanese armies invaded Vietnam during World War II. To combat both Japanese occupiers and the French colonial authority, political leader Ho Chi Minh founded the Viet Minh, or League for the Independence of Vietnam, which was inspired by Chinese and Soviet communism.

Following its loss in World War II in 1945, Japan withdrew its forces from Vietnam, leaving Emperor Bao Dai, who was trained in France, in charge. Ho's Viet Minh soldiers seized control of the northern city of Hanoi and declared the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) with Ho as president, seeing a chance to grab authority.

In order to reclaim control of the territory, France backed Emperor Bao and established the Vietnamese state in July 1949, with Saigon as its capital.

The goal was the same for all sides: a united Vietnam. However, while Ho and his allies desired a communist-style country, Bao and many others desired a Vietnam with strong economic and cultural ties to the West.


When did the Vietnam war start

The Vietnam War, and the United States' active participation in it, began in 1954, despite decades of fighting in the region.

Armed confrontation between northern and southern armies continued after Ho's communist forces assumed power in the north, until the northern Viet Minh won the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in May 1954. The defeat of the French in the fight brought an end to nearly a century of French colonial control in Indochina.

The treaty that followed, signed in July 1954 at a Geneva meeting, divided Vietnam along the 17th Parallel (17 degrees north latitude), with Ho in charge in the north and Bao in the south. The treaty also stipulated that nationwide reunification elections be held in 1956.

Ngo Dinh Diem, a staunch anti-communist politician, succeeded Emperor Bao as President of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam in 1955.






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