During the Geneva Conference in April of 1954, world leaders came together to create solutions for the problems in Asia. They feared that if Vietnam gained its independence and turned communist, it would start a domino effect of communism spreading throughout Asia.Īfter the French had surrendered to the Vietnamese revolutionaries, the question still remained of who would be ruling Vietnam from that point onwards. That is why America supported the French during the initial conflicts with Vietnamese nationalists.
Department of States, licensed under (PD-US)Īmerica in the 1950s and 60s was obsessed with stopping the spread of communism, which they saw as a threat to freedom everywhere. The Geneva Conference Geneva Conference 1954by U.S. This left the world wondering what would happen to Vietnam under a new regime. The last French troops left Vietnam in 1956. After several months of combat, the French would lose the battle to Vietnamese nationalists. When France did not concede, the revolutionaries turned to guerilla warfare to fight for their independence. His movement was called Viet Minh.Īfter Japan surrendered in WWII, Minh declared independence from France. During this power struggle, the Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh started a movement for independence. During World War II the French and the Japanese fought for control of Vietnam. The fight for control of Vietnam started in the mid-1800s when Vietnam was colonized by the French. The Vietnam War was part of a series of global conflicts over the spread of communism during the period known as the Cold War. The Start of the Vietnam War French capture of Saigon in 1859 by Unknown author, licensed under (PD-US) In this article, we explore a brief historical overview of the Vietnam War and its global impact. To this day, the Vietnam War is still an intensely debated historical topic. The American government’s decision to send troops to Vietnam to fight the spread of communism was a controversial one. North Vietnam wanted to unite both the South and the North under the same communist rule. The Vietnam War (1955-1975) began as a conflict between South Vietnam and North Vietnam following the nation’s independence from colonial France.
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