Vietnam under the rule of the French colony. Then during WW II Japan invaded the French colonies and took control, but then gave the colonies back to the French after they lost WW II. With the Vietnamese fed up with not having their own independent nation but being under the control of a different nation, a man named Ho Chi Minh decided to fight against this. Minh created a Vietnam Independence League called the Viet Minh. The leader being Ho Chi Minh wanting to bring Vietnam into a communist nation under his leadership. The French were willing to have Vietnam as a free state under the French but the Vietnamese didn’t accept this. Soon war broke out for the Vietnamese to fight to be an independent nation. Both China and the Soviet Union accepted the communist Viet Minh. Ultimately Vietnam split into two at the 17th parallel, becoming North Vietnam and South …show more content…
The Viet Cong continued to fight against the U.S even when they kept losing an abundance of their soldiers. In the end the United States lost the war losing “60,000 American soldiers”. (Turse 1) Right after they retreaded, North Vietnam took control of South Vietnam and became one nation under a communist rule. As the end result Vietnam “some 2 million Vietnamese citizens were killed”. (Turse 1) To this day many believe that the U.S should have had no involvement in the Vietnam. The new establishment of this communist nation made the Vietnamese strong believers in the communist ideology, where they didn’t have any democratic elements in their new