At this time, France’s colonial ambitions led it to take over Vietnam and some of it’s neighboring countries – Laos and Cambodia. In 1930, the ‘Indochinese Communist Party’ was formed by Ho Chi Minh, and during the Second World War he formed an independence movement called the Vietminh. After WWII, the Vietminh wanted Vietnam as an independent country and began a campaign to remove the French. Eventually this led to armed conflict between France and Vietnam, the French were defeated in 1954. After the war, the Vietminh controlled north Vietnam while an unpopular gover

nment setup by the French with it’s capital in Saigon controlled the South. After many years of political disagreement, a civil war broke out. The North (the communist Vietcong) and the South (the capitalist French and USA).

1968. Although the U.S.A. had bombed many North Vietnamese cities and towns, and inflicted many casualties to the Vietcong, they never came any closer to winning the war. In 1969, America began reducing the number of troops it was sending over and Australia did the same. It was on the 27th of December 1972, the newly elected Labor government in Australia stopped all Australian involvement in the war. The war ended not long after that in January 1973 when a cease-fire agreement was reached and all American ground troops were brought home.

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