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it was boring and pointless and had no meaning and English is bboooorrrriinnnnggg. this project has no meaning. haha. haha. lol.

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On 30 April 1975 North Vietnamese Tanks crashed through the gates of South Vietnam's Capital; ending the war. The North had won the war; North & South Vietnam were now ONE communist country (Vietnam).

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The Chinese had control over Vietnam, but in 939, they left and an independent Vietnam was created. In 1407, the Chinese regained control of the area. In 1427, the Chinese were driven out and another Vietnam nation was established. In 1861, the French seized control of Saigon and the rest of the south by 1867. They took control of the north by 1883. In 1940-41, the Japanese advanced into and took control of Northern and Southern French Indo-China, as France had been defeated by Germany at that time. It was during this period, that the Allies defeated Japan in WWII. The British and Chinese accepted the surrender of the Japanese in Vietnam and the French re-entered the area and took over control again. Ho Chi Minh, a Vietnamese Communist, returned to Vietnam from China and headed a Revolutionary League to regain independence for Vietnam. In 1945, he proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. On December 19, 1946, Vietminh forces attacked the French in Hanoi and the Indochina War--also known as the Vietminh War--began. In 1954, the Vietminh defeated the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, and the nation was temporarily divided into two sections, north and south. The people of the south chose Ngo Dinh Diem as their ruler and Ho continued to rule the north. Diem refused to go along with the planned elections in 1956 to unite the nation, because he knew he would lose, so the Vietminh members in the south created the Viet Cong and the war between north and south for control of the country began.

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The northerners were communists, and the southerners were NOT communists, except for the local VC (Viet Cong).

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The North Vietnamese were fighting for a way of life. The South Vietnamese were rice farmers and could not have cared lees if they were a democracy or a communist state.

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North Vietnam was a communist country. The Republic of South Vietnam was a free country.

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The free democratic "Republic of South Vietnam" led by President Diem, later Thieu vs Communist North Vietnam led by Chairman Ho Chi Minh.

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