202020

Vietnam was known to be the longest war in American History. It was responsible for 58,000 American injuries and 350,000 American deaths. There were about two billion Vietnamese deaths.    The Unites States supported France in the war against VM while they were trying to gain independence from France. The US funded the French-Indochina War because they wanted materials produced  by Vietnam. Vietnam  was led by Ho Chi Minh who believed in Vietnamese independence. Ho Chi eventually became a communist hoping to promote state control of everything. The overall goal for communism was social equality. The representatives of the communist Party owned the nations resources.    In the second stage of the war the US supported Ngo  Dinh  Diem as the South Vietnam leader against Ho Chi Minh in the North. Ngo  Dinh  Diem was a brutal leader, there were protest against his brutality. The protest was by Buddhist monks who set thems...