The_Veitnam_War

The Veitnam War The Vietnam War was unlike any war the United States had ever been involved in throughout its history. Unlike the First and Second World Wars along with their involvement in the Korean War, the U.S. has no clear beginning in Vietnam, nor does it have a definitive end to the involvement thereof. For South Vietnam, the conflict that had emerged from the 1954 division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel forced that newborn country to alter its focus and resources toward fighting a war when it needed all of its people and industry for the development of a country hampered by a French colonial past. The same is true for North Vietnam, which suffered greater perils than South Vietnam, because it didn’t have U.S. dollars or technical advisors to improve the day-to-day lives of its people. The First Indochina War lasted from 1945 through 1954 with the French fighting the Viet Minh for control of Indochina. Throughout this conflict, the U.S. increasingly supported France militarily and politically. The French government used this posture to gain U.S. assistance in Indochina by arguing consistently that if the French lost Indochina, their government would fall to the Communist Party, which then would result in vietnam, french, war, indochina, vietminh, viet, through, minh, forces, eisenhower, battle, first, fight, fall, asia, along, after, about, 1954, 1953, support, southeast, one, office, military, involved, government, france, fighting, end, country, american, air, able, wrong, underestimated