Vietnamese nationalism was an important factor in determining the Vietnamese people's motives for defending their country against the French and later the United States. Since the United States did not understand the nature of Vietnamese nationalism, the United States helped the South Vietnamese. The South Vietnamese at first didn’t follow Ho Chi Minh’s belief of communism.

When Ho Chi Minh started to gain power in the south, the country of Vietnam united. The United States focused on the apparent threat of Communism. The Americans fought a war without realizing the strength of the un

The United States overlooked the Vietnamese one because the Vietnamese had the aid of China, two the people of Vietnam were smaller and weaker economically as well as militarily. The most effective military was the NLF, or the National Liberation Front of Vietnam. It had been founded by Ho Chi Minh, this military, was backed by communism, and had the personnel of the South and North Vietnamese. However, its immediate program was more concerned with national independence than with Communism. As Ho Chi Minh said, before one could practice Communism one had to have a country to practice it in. The majority of the North Vietnamese were communists the Vietnamese had many different types of political persuasions that joined in the struggle against foreign rule. The Vietnamese people welcomed members of the NLF into their homes and helped the military because the way the military treated the Vietnamese people was respectful; as well as, with much descency.

Because of the Americans slapping the Vietnamese in the face and china aiding Vietnam more people grew to like the communist party. In short Ho Chi Minh followers were all of the every party the Vietnamese people viewed; but, due to the incidents that happened through out the war I think more people grew favorable to the communist belief.

France never established a very good relationship with the Vietnamese, who repeatedly rebelled against French rule. In 1930 a Vietnamese; (Nguyen Ai Quoc, meaning "Nguyen the Patriot"), who is Ho Chi Minh, founded the Indochinese Communist Party (ironically, he had been converted to Communism while in France). From that point onward there was a substantial Communist component in the nationalist movement. The French police, however, were able to keep the Communists and all other Vietnamese political movements too weak to pose any serious threat to French rule.

By the end of 1945, the French came back to Vietnam. Negotiations between France and the Viet Minh went on for about a year, but produced no effective compromise. The entire population Vietnam wanted to have independence. The French wanted to regain effective control of the country. By December 1946, all efforts at a peaceful settlement had failed; the French and the Vietnamese were at war.

If the Vietnamese had utilized passive resistant roles in their initial step

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