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Ho Chi Minh and his followers set up the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930.
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The puppet Bao Dai returned from France to reign as emperor of Vietnam under the French.
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The Second World War threw everything into the melting pot. In September 1940 Japanese troops occupied Indochina, but allow the French to continue their colonial administration of the area.
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An oil boycott by the U.S. and Great Britain
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Japan surrendered and the French colonialists returned to reclaim their former possessions.
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It was agreed that countrywide elections would be held in 1956.
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Factions within the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese leadership began to call for a change of direction in the war’s conduct
General Vo Nguyen Giap, who had formerly advocated waging a largely guerrilla war, came to believe a “quick victory” might now be possible. Planning therefore began for a major offensive in South Vietnam that would provoke a “general uprising.” Against the corrupt and unpopular South Vietnamese Government. -
70,000 North Vietnamese soldiers, together with guerrilla fighters of the NLF, launched one of the most daring military campaigns in history.
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The tet offensive launched.
The Viet Cong, marked a significant escalation in the scale and the intensity of the Vietnam War.
