Vietnam war
Before WWII France controlled Vietnam, During WWII Japan took it over. The leader of the Vietminh was Ho Chi Minh, this form of government supported communism and the goal was to strike against the French. On Sept 2nd 1945 Ho Chi Minh took independence. By the end of 1943 the army of the republic overthrew a Vietnam officer who disagreed with them.The U.S aided the French in the Indochina war by giving them 15 million dollars. The conditions of the Geneva Accords were that France had agreed to withdraw troops, Indochina split into 3 colonies Laos,Cambodia, and Vietnam.The leader of communistic North Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem was the leader of anti communist South Vietnam. Some practices of Diem that angered the South Vietnamese were restricting budhist practices and not distributing the land to peasants. The Vietcong were communist guerillas and their goal was to spread communism, North Korea supported the Vietcong. On November 1, 1963 the republic of Vietnam Officers revolted against Ngo Dien Diem. The gulf of Tonkin incident was when 3 North Vietnamese boats attacked the USS Madox. The Tonkin Resolution was further expansion of the Vietnam war. 563,100 Americans were sent to Vietnam. The Vietcong liked to make tunnels to crawl through and for transportation, Americans attempted to expose the Vietnamese tunnels by blowing them up with explosives. In 1968 the president Richard Nixon's Vietnamization was trying to bring troops slowly home. April 30th 1975 was the fall of Saigon Vietnam's capital ending the Vietnam war with the Vietnamese winning.