Western Civilization, as we know it today, has been shaped by the many revolutions that nations throughout the land have participated in. For better or worse, revolutions dating as far back as The English Revolution, have one way or another formed national relationships amongst each other. The outcome of each revolution, has effected the style and manor of the next revolution there after in the world. The French Revolution, opened up peoples minds to enlightenment, and World War I was the first to have battles of modern warfare. The Vietnam Revolution, also helped form the world we live in today, and the style and magnitude of world interaction within the war, is felt still today.

The Vietnam Revolution could apply be summarized as a war between communism and democracy. The war stretched the boundaries of Vietnam and included a number of countries that helped in some form to further benefited their system. No revolution since has encountered such a large number of casualties as The Vietnam Revolution did. Although, in the end, communism reigned in Vietna

The Vietnam Revolution was an epilogue of events that started way before the conflict that occurred during the 1960’s and 1970’s. Vietnam began its mark on the world, when beginning in 1857, France attacked the land and later seized it as a colony. The Vietnam land was finalized to French control in 1883 with the signing of a Treaty of Protectorate, thus ending Vietnam’s independence. The French colonial land remained under the country with little uprising for nearly fifty years. Then in 1930, a Vietnamese man by the name of Ho Chi Minh and his followers organized the Indochinese Communist Party, which opposed to the French Rule. The Indochinese Communist Party, which was later called the Vietnamese Communist Party, began to grow stronger and by 1945 the group was ready to fight for the independence of Vietnam once more.

Ho Chi Minh established a military group in 1945, called the Vietminh, that would serve as the military fight against the French in the war named the First Indochina War. The war lasted 9 years and many Vietnamese lives were lost,(8,000 dead), but their determination for independence was not to be denied. With the Vietminh victory at the French command post at Dien Bien Phu, the French were forced to surrender. The land of Vietnam was finalized on July 20, 1954 at the Geneva Conference on Indochina which declared North Vietnam under the communist rule of Ho Chi Minh, and South Vietnam under the democratic rule of Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem. A demilitarize zone was made at the 17th parallel dividing the two nations. “ Many people view the (First Indochina) war as a Vietnamese fight for independence and a French fight to keep a colony, but it was far more than this. Indochina was part of the beginnings of another world war”(Erringtonand McKercher 17). This war would be the Vietnam Revolution.

Many nations around the world kept a close eye on the involvement’s in Vietnam after the Geneva Conference, most importantly, the United States and Russia. After 1954 Ho Chi Minh and his Communist followers began preparing for a battle with South Vietnam to unify the country under Communist rule. Ho Chi Minh established a guerrilla forces unit called the Vietcong in South Vietnam to begin uprising in the state. Also, supply routes from North Vietnam to South Vietnam were being made by the Vietcong. “With the approval of Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia, the Vietcong developed a primitive route along the Vietnam/Cambodian border with offshoots into Vietnam along its entire length. This eventually became known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail” (Duiker 62). With this, the neighboring country of Cambodia was on the side of the North. South Vietnam became uneasy, and assistance was needed to fight against the communist North. The best answer for South Vietnam was to call on the United States.

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