It was from this rebellion that the Indochinese Communist Party was created in 1930 under the head of Ho Chi Minh. ... The CP belonged to the Communist International, which also helped with the struggle of the working people. ... On September 14 the Vietminh police chief and Communist Party stalwart Duong Bach Mai sent and armed regime and took over where the peoples committee were meeting but then only 4 days later the British took it back over and ended the 4-day independence of Vietnam. ...

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(p. 160) The communist party gained the control that it so desperately fought for, but once they got the power they did not know how to manage it. Kolko said, "The Vietnamese Communist party became counterproductive the moment [the war] ended." ... Currently, the situation has improved, but mainly because of the steps the government has taken away from its Communist roots. ... It needs to decide whether it can survive as a communist nation or try to ally itself with the western nations and learn from a free market society. ...

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French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954 after Vietnam army defeated them; French were compelled to accede to the creation of a communist north and left a non-communist entity South of that line. ... Communists accused democracy of Violating human rights, created close state economics that barely traded with capitalists countries and pursued military aggression as well. A lot of Americans even compared communist as a disease. If one nation decided to become communist the U.S policymakers expected the nations around it to become communist. ... When the Communist Part came to power in Chine, Wa...

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When living in France, Ho converted to communism and became one of the founders of the French Communist Party. ... Some may say Ho Chi Minh cannot be a nationalist because he started a French Communist Party, but I disagree. Even after the creation of the French Communist Party, Ho Chi Minh went back and joined an exiled Vietnamese nationalist group. ... Ho being a nationalist did not mean he was not a communist, I just see him as more of a nationalist than a communist. ... Even in his communist actions, his overall intention was for the freedom of Vietnam, like the communist movement he creat...

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When authorities began cracking down on Communist activities he was forced to leave China. He remained away from China until 1930 when he returned to found the Indochinese Communist party. ... In 1938 he served as an advisor to the Chinese Communist armed forces. ... Under Ho Chi Minh's presidency the DRV focused its efforts on creating a communist society in North Vietnam. ... In his honor, Saigon was named Ho Chi Minh City, following the Communist conquest of the South. ...

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I am not going to be the president who saw Southeast Asia become communist."" ... The U.S. wanted the communists to leave and let South Vietnam to become its own country. ... Communist forces suffered tremendous casualties in the South. ... He issued an order to the ARVN: "If Communists come into your village, shoot them in the head." ... Congress and was twice the size of the Communist forces, but morale was collapsing. ...

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Communist forces in The Vietnam War were: North Vietnam, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, Soviet Union, China and North Korea. Anti-Communist forces were: South Vietnam, United States, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Khmer Republic and the Kingdom of Laos. ... This meant it was extremely hard to fight the communist forces. ... In 1975 the war ended at the Fall of Saigon with the North Vietnamese and communists winning the war. This resulted in Vietnam reuniting as a communist country. ...

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Preventing Vietnam from becoming a communist state would become imperative given the state of affairs in the post World War II era. ... At the collapse of Japan in 1945, Ho Chi Minh led Vietnamese Communists to the liberation of Vietnam. ... The theory was: Vietnam was first in a row of dominos which, if knocked over into communist hands, would lead to the communization of the rest of Southeast Asia. ... In 1953 Eisenhower requested sixty million dollars for French aid, and by 1954 the United States was sustaining eighty percent of the cost of the war between the French and the Communist ...

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At that time, Vietnam was separated into Communist-ruled North Vietnam and noncommunist South Vietnam. ... The situation improved in 1949 after Mao Zedong and his communist army defeated Chaing Kai-Shek in China. ... Communists saw the Vietnam War as an extension of their struggle with France, as another attempt by a foreign power to rule Vietnam, and as a war of national liberation. China and the Soviet Union supported the Vietnamese Communists with war materials but not troops. ... From 1957 to 1965, the war was mainly a struggle between the South Vietnamese army and Communist...

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The country was divided because of the communistic views of the North. Because the North was trying to take over and make it a communist country the U.S. then got involved. ... The mounting communist assault against the south then prompted president John F. ... In 1976 it was officially reunited into one communistic nation. Over 1 million Vietnamese have fled since the Country turned communist. ...

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From 1946 ahead the Vietminh organisation set-up and was led by, communist Ho Chi Minh. ... Diem had no intention of holding the elections and said that the communists would not allow free elections in the North. ... The USA was again fighting for the wrong reasons as they thought it was non-communist against the communists. ... America's vision saw the Vietminh led by a communist. This meant America would do any thing they could to defeat the Vietminh (communists)....

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The Americans took this act as a sign that Kim II Sung was utilising a communist take-over, thus in October of the same year America, with UN sanction, invaded North Korea. ... This is important because America as the leader of the capitalist ideology could not afford to let Korea fall to the North, as they believed that to do so would essentially relinquish control to the communists. ... Most South Koreans believe that the North are "engaged in a deceptive peace offensive in a bid to cover up their aggressiveness by misleading world opinion" America too keeps a watchful eye on North Korea...

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Now, as Ho Chi Minh intends to spread communist ideals throughout the country from north to south, the US must step in to defend democracy. In 1964 the US took control of almost all of the South Vietnamese military and began to fight the communist forces. 200,000 men were sent to fight and later a draft sent about 35,000 men a month to fight the war. ... The Peoples Republic of China and the USSR promoted the communist North Vietnam while the US supported South Vietnam. ...

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General William Westmoreland claimed that the Tet offensive was actually a victory for America and South Vietnam due to the casualties of the communists. It would take years for the communists to rebuild their strength. However, the communists seized the offensive and the American people witnessed the horrors. ...

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In 1930, the "Indochinese Communist Party" was formed by Ho Chi Minh, and during the Second World War he formed an independence movement called the Vietminh. ... The North (the communist Vietcong) and the South (the capitalist French and USA). 1965. ... The North Vietnamese completed its victory and reunited Vietnam as a communist country. ...

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As North Vietnamese Communists began to threaten South Vietnam, the United States initiated a military counter to Asian communist aggression. ... Johnson to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States in order to prevent further aggression by Communist insurgents of North Vietnam against the government of South Vietnam. ... However, as a result of the TET Offensive launched by Communist forces, American leaders were forced to begin negotiations to achieve a quick end to the war. Although the Communists were eventually driven back, America'...

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Furthermore, the French public support and faith was sapped and the French Communist Party against the war gained momentum. ... The French colonial rule officially ended and they were compelled to accede to the creation of a Communist Vietnam north of the 17th parallel while leaving a non-Communist entity south of that line, "On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.... Additionally, American forces sought for a separate South Vietnam, rather than reuniting with the Communist north as stipulated by the Geneva accords. ... The communist dominated nati...

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Founder of the Indochina communist party in 1930 and president from 1945 -69 of the democratic republic of Vietnam. ... It was represented by its own diplomatic staffs in all communist countries and in several neutral countries. ...

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The North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong were fighting to unify North Vietnam and South Vietnam as a communist country. ... But he recognised that those others who supported Australia's role in the war saw it as a battle between communism and democracy Finally by 1971 all Australian troops brought home and by 1975 the USA pulled out of Vietnam, giving victory to their communist enemies, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. ...

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First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is changed by the death of one of the soldiers under his command, Ted Lavender. A change is also experienced by the other soldiers in the once seventeen-man platoon, but none as telling as Cross". He transforms both as an individual and a commander. His once treasured...

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The northern part was the Communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the southern part was the Non-Communist Republic. ... North Vietnamese started to rebel against Diem and from 1957 to 1959 he tried to stop the rebels from North Vietnam whom he named the Viet Cong, meaning Vietnamese Communist. ... The "Hawks supported the war and the fight against communists and the "Doves" were against the war and didn't think America was a risk from North Vietnam or communism. ...

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The war began as a Communist guerrilla campaign supported by North Vietnam, who sought control of South Vietnam. ... The Communists were driven out after weeks of never ending battles during which they suffered substantial losses. ... Although there was a lull in the intensity of the fighting, it did continue all throughout the spring of 1968, and into 1969, when another Tet Offensive was launched by the Communist regime. ... In both Laos and Cambodia, United States forces tried to blunt Communist offensives and to eliminate the Vietcong forces from their Cambodian sanctuaries. ...

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It was started by communist North Vietnam wanting to take over South Vietnam. ... The American government gave up while the communist North Vietnam took over Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam. ... The North Vietnamese government helped establish communist governments in Laos and Cambodia in 1975. ...

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The Vietnam War was a prolonged conflict, extending from 1954 to 1975, between the communist government of North Vietnam and the non-communist government of the South. Good Morning Afternoon. In Australia, public opinion on the war in Vietnam moved through several stages throughout its involvement i...

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By definition, the Vietnam War was a protracted military conflict between the Communist forces of North Vietnam supported by China and the Soviet Union and the non-Communist forces of South Vietnam supported by the United States. ...

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