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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (145348)9/16/2004 8:36:13 AM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The Vietnamese drove the French from the North -- we took over in the South after the French had decided it was not worth it to hold onto their colony. The US did not want to see Vietnam unified. That was the core issue of the "American war".

Wrong.
Vietnam was a unified country until 1954. A temporary agreement worked out in Geneva that year divided the country into N and S for two years with unifying elections to be held in 56... Ho and the Communists took control of the N and the scheduled reunification never happened.

To go a bit further back, the Japanese occupied Vietnam during WW II. When Japan surrendered, the Communists attempted to take control of the entire country. The French returned to prevent that.

The 1954 Geneva agreement called for reunification, with free elections throughout the country to be held in 1956. But Ho took control of the N in late 54 and immediately established a communist state. Free elections were never possible in the N.
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