The Vietnam War Protests A protest is a way of expressing your discontent with a situation. Protests have been performed for as long as humans have governed. Modern day protest Americas Involvement in Vietnam Prior to World War 2, Vietnam was a French colony. During World war 2 the Japanese were given the go ahead from Nazi Germany to try and invade Vietnam. At this point America fought alongside Ho Chi Min in an attempt to fight of the common enemy, the Japanese. When World War 2 ended the Japanese left Vietnam, but this did not grant the Vietnamese its independence as the French then came back to take Vietnam back as a French governed country. In 1945 Ho Chi Min, a leader of a communist Vietnamese revolutionary group, took over Hanoi. This lead …show more content…
This led to the Indochina War which was fought up until 1954. The US started of supporting the French from 1950 when they start contributing arms and bombing. IN July 1954 communist Vietnam had won a major battle over the French, the battle of Dien Bien Phu. Ho Chi Min confident from his latest victory was able to negotiate a ceasefire. This split Vietnam up into the North and South, the North being under the rule of Ho Chi Min and communism. The French then pulled out of the war which left America as the only fighting nation against the Vietcong and Ho Chi Min. The American government believed in something called the domino affect which inferred that if communism was spreading throughout the world like dominos and if it was not contained, then it would take over the world. The