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).
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