Help on vietnam?! pleaseee?

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Sam

No, it was still controlled by France. They had to fight for their independence in the 1950s.

The answers given so far are technically incorrect! On August 19, 1945, Ho Chi Minh and his fellow revolutionaries lead a popular uprising that seized power in Hanoi and on Sept. 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnamese independence (for the whole country) and thus the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was born. In March of 1946, the French signed with Ho's Vietnamese government a treaty called the Preliminary Accords ( Hiệp Định Sơ Bộ) , recognizing the independence of Vietnam, pending the final terms to be concluded in France. Ho Chi Minh and some of his key associates travelled to France to negotiate but the negotiations broke down and Ho returned to Vietnam shortly thereafter, In December of 1946, war broke out between Vietnamese and French forces in a conflict that lasted for 8 years until the French were defeated in Dien Bien Phu in May of 1954. On July 20, 1954, in Geneva, an accords was signed by Vietnam and France to devide Vietnam into North and South with all Vietnamese forces regrouped north of the 17th parallell and French forces to the South. A general election was to be held in 1956 to unite the country and to decide which government would be the unity government for the whole of Vietnam. Before the election could be held, the US, which had financed the war on behalf of the French, forced the French to withdraw from South Vietnam and maneovered for a pro-US government under Ngo Dinh Diem to come to power in the South, declaring it a separate country and abolished the election. Not only that, Diem who was Catholic, persecuted the Buddhists who form the majority of the population but he also did patriots who had fought against the French. The people in the South revolted in 1960 and fought the Diem government, almost overwhelming it by 1963. Diem was about to sue for peace but the US killed him and replaced his governent with a military dictatorship under generals Duong Van Minh, Nguyen Khanh and in 1965, Nguyen Van Thieu. These US-paid governments could not suppress the revolt any better than Diem so in 1964-65, the US intervened directly and massively after faking the so called "Tonkin incident" to implicate the North in the revolt in the South. The US eventually landed 500,000 troops in South Vietnam and bombed both the North and the South almost to total destruction, killing several million Vietnamese, mostly unarmed civilians and poisoned the environment whose ill affects has lasted until this day (Google Agent Orange). After 8 years of massive killing of Vietnamese in the North and in the South, the US could not suppress the resistance of the Vietnamese so in 1973, the US had to signed a treaty to withdraw all troops from Vietnam and recognized its total sovereignty. The US, however, continued to support the pro US southern regime in Saigon with arms and "advisors" to wage war against the countryside for two more years until this regime was totally defeated in April 1975 and Vietnam was united into one country again in 1976. So officially, Vietnam had been independent since Sept. 2, 1945 but in reality, it was partially occupied by France and the US until 1975.

ong jon

no ,at the end of ww2 when the powers that be [ us] sat down to carve up the entire civilized world ho chi minh went to europe asking for independence for his country but was not give the time of day .the west in all their wisdom and warped sense of freedom [ which still exists today, "freedom for us screw you" attitude] gave viet nam back to the french???? the west paid the price for it in over 2 decades of controversial wars and tens of thousands of dead young men [and woman].....why did they do that ...? because the french were our allies ????, they were white viet namese are not, and we felt france need to get some self respect back after the beating they took in the war.. so they were allowed to go back and re colonize [ re enslave] viet nam ..some method of re gaining self respect huh ! well they [ and we] paid dearly for our greed...

truthy

it was known as french indochina

T.M.P

LesCRNI

No, when the World War II finished, Vietnam was a French Teritory. Until 1959, Vietnam was a territory of France. In 1959, was the Indochinese War. When it finished, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were independent countries.

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