Who did France lose Vietnam to?

Answer 1

After years of futile efforts to maintain a colonial presence in Viet Nam, the French finally got a tremedous butt-whupping at Dien Bien Phu, I think it was. After being thoroughly trounced by the Vietnamese forces, France finally gave up and went home. This prolonged a centuries-old tradition of the French military being repeatedly clobbered by virtually every enemy they ever fought. Come to think of it, probably the best known French warrior today is a teenage girl. Joan of Arc, they called her.Anyway, France was forced to yield the economic benefits of keeping Vietnam hostage to French economics. So, being totally oblivious of history, and the resolve of the Vietnamese forces, the US sent a few Green Berets to help out as consultants. Thus began the descent into the quagmire of war that the United States became enmeshed in. By the way, I have it on good authority that the rumor that graduates of French Army officer's training are NOT actually issued white flags, with instructions. They must provide their own.

Answer 2

France lost Vietnam to Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Viet Minh, the National Liberation Forces of Vietnam. It was a war for independence and France was willing to concede it. The United States was less willing to concede independence to Ho Chi Minh when he was an avowed Communist, so the United States took a more direct role in opposing the newly independent Vietnam.

Answer 3

The US wanted to prevent the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia and the Vietnamese Resistance to the French was communist, led by Ho Chi Minh. Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh forces would eventually unite all of Vietnam and cause communist revolutions in Laos and Cambodia.

Answer 4

After the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

Answer 5

France occupied Viet Nam from the 19th Century until 1954.

Answer 6

That Vietnam would be taken over by a Communist regime extending Chinese control in South Asia.

Answer 7

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