The Vietnam War
Do you know why the Viet Nam war started, or when it really began?Well, it may surprise you to know that the war actually began shortly after the end of World War II. When WWII ended many countries had taken control of smaller countries in Asia. Vietnam was controlled by the French, but after WWII Vietnam wanted it's independence. France did not want to give up it's colonies because they needed the extra income to help rebuild it's country after WWII.A man named Ho Chi Minh, who declared their independence from the French after the end of WWII, led Vietnam. His resistance force was first called the Viet - Minh, which stood for the Vietnam Independence League (DRV). Ho Chi Minh formed a government called the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, although he was a true communist. Vietnam became divided into North and South Vietnam, with the French controlling South Vietnam and the DRV the North. As the French moved into North Vietnam fighting broke out and the French became involved in a new kind of war. The General in charge of the DRV, a man named Giap used "guerrilla warfare" to defeat the French. In this type of war the General used small groups of men to kill or wound French soldiers and then run
They thought that if Vietnam became a Communist country all countries in the region would soon also become Communist's. Who won and who lost? That's an easy question to answer for some and not so easy for others. After this defeat a meeting was held in Geneva Switzerland and Vietnam was divided into North and South Vietnam along the 17th parallel of latitude. From 1961, when the American President actually used an American law to declare a limited war on the north, until 1975, when the war ended, American's who had fought in Vietnam was over 2 and 1/2 million. You see unlike WWII everyone could watch the fighting and killing live from their TV's. Worried about the South and the possibility that Vietnam would become another Communist country the American's began sending food and "advisors or trainers" to help the new South Vietnamese army train and defend themselves. Additionally, the rice fields in the south produced enough rice that they were know as the "Rice Bowl" of Indochina. So what do you think? Well everyone has to decide for himself. Well I'm sure many of you have seen or maybe even tried the trick of standing Dominos up and making all of them fall over. Well as you can expect the North continued its "guerrilla war" against ARVN forces and their advisors. But actually, the American's won every major battle that they fought. By 1954 the French knew that they could not win a war against the DVR. About a million people from the North moved to South Vietnam because they were Catholic and the Communist's in the North did not allow this type of religion.
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