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Led the Viet Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the Communist Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 in the battle of Dien Bien Phu.
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Because the French did not recognized their independence, Vietnam launched an attack on the French to try and win they independence.
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After the French were defeated, the Geneva Accords were created and Vietnam was split into North and South at the 17th parallel.
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The Domino Theory was the idea that if South Vietnam fell to Communism then the rest of Asia would become Communist as well.
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The French were defeated and the U.S. didn't know whether to support the French, their ally, or the Vietnamese, who they understood because they had also fought for their independence, until they found out Ho Chi Minh was Communist and decided to help South Vietnam so it didn't also become Communist.
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Diem cancelled the 1956 election that would decide if North and South Vietnam reunited again because he didn't want Ho Chi Minh to lead Vietnam and he wanted power.
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They are also known as the Viet Cong and are part of South Vietnam, but support North Vietnam and Communism and eventually are controlled by the North Vietnamese.
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The U.S. stops supporting Diem because he was killing innocent people just for their religion. Soon after he is kill in a coup.
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A Buddhist monk in South Vietnam set himself on fire to get the United States' attention so they would intervene and stop Ngo Dinh Diem from killing anyone who wasn't a Christian.
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If JFK had not been assassinated we may not have entered the Vietnam war because he didn't plan on joining.
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LBJ claimed that the U.S.S. Madoxx had been attacked by North Vietnamese gunboats and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was created, allowing the president to do whatever he wanted in Vietnam.
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The U.S sent troops to Vietnam in 1965 but they had already sent military advisers a year before that.
