Vietnam War

            You Can Kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win" (Lowe 10). Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940's.
             Western Civilization, as we know it today, has been shaped by the many revolutions that nations throughout the land have participated in. For better or worse, revolutions dating as far back as The English Revolution, have one way or another formed national relationships amongst each other. The outcome of each revolution, has effected the style and manor of the next revolution there after in the world. The French Revolution, opened up peoples minds to enlightenment, and World War I was the first to have battles of modern warfare. The Vietnam Revolution, also helped form the world we live in today, and the style and magnitude of world interaction within the war, is felt still today.
             The Vietnam Revolution could apply be summarized as a war between communism and democracy. The war stretched the boundaries of Vietnam and included a number of countries that helped in some form to further benefited their system. No revolution since has encountered such a large number of casualties as The Vietnam Revolution did. Although, in the end, communism reigned in Vietnam, the effect the war had on the world was the beginning of the end of the dominance of communist leadership in many similar nations.
             The Vietnam Revolution was an epilogue of events that started way before the conflict that occurred during the 1960's and 1970's. Vietnam began its mark on the world, when beginning in 1857, France attacked the land and later seized it as a colony. The Vietnam land was finalized to French control in 1883 with the signing of a Treaty of Protectorate, thus ending Vietnam's independence. The French colonial land remained under the country with little uprising for nearly fifty years. Then in 1930, a Vietnamese man by the name of Ho Chi Minh and his followers organized the Indochinese Communist Party, which opposed to the French Rule.