vietnam please help?

Question

does anybody know why vietnam became communist. like where did the vietnamese get the idea for communism?

Answer 1

try this website

Answer 2

The leader of the opposition to French rule was Ho Chin Minn. Has a young man he was influence by the idea of communism. During WWII the US had sent advisers to help him and his forces combat the Japanese. With the end of the war colonialism was to come back to Vietnam by way of the French. Ho was not so much a communist as he was nationalist, he along with many others of his country wanted free of colonial rule.
With no aid forth coming from the US, as the US supported the French, Ho looked for help else where. He found it, U.S.S.R. supported him.
While many feared the Chinese entry, they were in fact enemies to the Vietnamese People, who have a 2000 year history of resistance to the Chinese. After the US withdrawl and the joining of North and South Vietnam, it was the Russian soldiers that replaced the Americans.

Answer 3

Ho chi MInh, which really isnt his name, learned to hate colonial rule after the treatment his father recieved. When he was old enough he traveld to America and Europe studying and working. While he was loved american ideas the best, he was swayed by the ideas of carl marx, which on paper look good, especially to someone living in an opressed country under colonial rule. He traveled to the societ union where he was trained in revolutionary tactics since it was the philosophy of the soviets that class change can come about due to violent revolution. From there he traveled back, became an international criminal, had to fake his own death at one point, then snuck through china back into vietnam during wwII to fight the japanese. Yes we did help him then, since he was the lesser of two evils, just like we helped the soviets. When the war ended we were forced to take a stand, and sicne he was choosing commmunism as a way to end colonial rule in Vietnam, we had to be against him.

Answer 4

The Russians. They also learn about it from THe CHinese and the French. They were ruled by the French and conquered by the Japanese. There hatred of foreign power, so they rejected their ways. Communism was a good way for the vietnamese to take back the land from the French and the French government, and the Russian and CHinese were willing to help fund this rebellion. Capitalist, imperalist and fascist country did not want vietnam to go independent because of alliances and fear that other colonies would do the same.

Answer 5

Vietnam was a colonial possesion of France. Vietnam together with Laos and Cambodia, were collectively called French Indo-China. Vietnam had been fighting for her independence from French rule for 200 years. The last Vietnamese fight for independence was led by a nationalist, Ho Chi Minh.

World War 2 ended the role of Great Britain and France as colonial powers. After the war, there became a surge of aspirations for independence in the whole of Southeast Asia. Great Britain had to grant independence to its colonies (India, Burma, Singapore, Malaysia), the U.S. to the Philippines, the Dutch to Indonesia. However, France refused to grant independence to Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh raised the issue of Vietnamese independence on several occasions at the United Nations general assembly, but was ignored. He then sent a letter to U.S. President Harry Trumann pleading for help to intervene on his behalf on the Vietnamese independence issue. Trumann, not wanting to let down France who was America's ally in World War 2, never replied. Ho Chi Minh sent another letter to Trumann, but still got no reply. Ho Chi Minh, left with no other choice, resorted to armed struggle against the French. But realizing that his guerilla forces are poorly armed to fight the French, Ho Chi Minh turned to China for assistance, knowing that the U.S. wouldn't help him. China lost no time in supplying him with arms. Then Russia, China's ally at the time took advantage of the situation by suppllying him with Soviet arms together with Soviet military advisers. The Soviets trained the guerillas on various military tactics, but also started indoctrinating them with the Communist ideology. Ho Chi Minh himself, soon became a communist convert through this indoctrination. From this point on, the Viet Minh (Ho Chi Minh's guerillas) waged war against the French. This war went so long until the Viet Minh defeated the French in the battle at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The United Nations finally acted by proposing to end the conflict and imposing a demarcation line (the 37th parallel) that divided Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The Viet Minh got the North, and the French got the South. However, the peace was short-lived and soon war broke out again. This war went so long until the French, unable to continue with the war any further, handed over South Vietnam to the Americans. After the French pulled-out of Vietnam, the Americans assumed to continue the war. Thus started the American bitter involvement in Vietnam. This is what most Americans called the Vietnam War. After many years of fighting, American troops eventually withdrew and South Vietnam's fall to the communists was complete in 1974.