The Vietnam War was one the worst wars of our history, we had a death toll of 58,000 of our Americans people and 1.2 million Vietnamese people. In South Vietnam Communist had not started, but in North Vietnam, Communist was terrible. America supplied South Vietnam with supplies. The French colonized Vietnam and two other countries, Cambodia, and Laos. When all three of them were joined together they were called the french Indochina. The three countries were not so thrilled to be colonized. During all of this Ho Chi Minh was organizing a army called the Viet Cong. The Viet Cong was fighting a Guerilla war, this meant that they dug tunnels to travel without being seen and launched sneak attacks. In 1964 a Vietnam Navy ship bombed a America ship patrolling in the Gulf of Tonkin. President Nixon passed a law saying that America could send forces into Vietnam. Americas military was much more advanced than Vietnam, but most of the battles were fought in dense jungles, America was not trained to fight this kind of war. What America had at first was limited to bombings, but by the end of this war there was 184,000 American Soldiers in Vietnam.
After America withdrew from Vietnam (they could not last any more of the Viet Cong, so they just left as fast as they could), North Vietnam took over South Vietnam, turning it into a Communist country. Now in Vietnam they have stuck to a market economy, meaning that they can sell their own products and what they want for it, but there is still a little bit of communism in Vietnam. After America withdrew Vietnam charged into Cambodia to put a end to Cambodia’s non- communist leadership. But 2 years after the war, China found out that this was happening, China attacked Vietnam, the reason this happened was that China wanted to make Vietnam know that they were much stronger than them, it was not a good thing to happen since Vietnam had recently come out of a war.
After America withdrew from Vietnam (they could not last any more of the Viet Cong, so they just left as fast as they could), North Vietnam took over South Vietnam, turning it into a Communist country. Now in Vietnam they have stuck to a market economy, meaning that they can sell their own products and what they want for it, but there is still a little bit of communism in Vietnam. After America withdrew Vietnam charged into Cambodia to put a end to Cambodia’s non- communist leadership. But 2 years after the war, China found out that this was happening, China attacked Vietnam, the reason this happened was that China wanted to make Vietnam know that they were much stronger than them, it was not a good thing to happen since Vietnam had recently come out of a war.