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The Vietnam war By Chris and Nicole In most of Vietnams history it was under foreign rule primarily by the Chinese In 1860, then France controlled it by the late 19th century, then during WWII the Japanese government took control of a lot of the area, eventually the Japanese were forced out by the Vietnamese in 1945 After the WWII and until 1955 France fought hard to regain their old land but with a poorly organized army and little determination among the troops, they soon lost the battle. The French were finally defeated at Dien Bien Phu on the 8th of May 1954 by the communist general Vo Nguyen Giap. The French was forced to withdraw, leaving a buffer zone separating the North and South. Many north Vietnamese left the country and fled south where the self-proclaimed president, Ngo Dinh Diem had formed the Republic of Vietnam. Between 1955 and 1960, the North Vietnamese with the help of the southern communist Vietcong they tried to take over the government in South Vietnam, and in November 1963 the President Diem was overthrown and executed. The next year, the North Vietnamese started a battle to conquer the whole country aided by China and Russia. Scared of a communist takeover of the entire region, the United States grew more and more scared of the progress of Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong. Communism had become the evil menace in the United States and with the Soviet rule in Eastern Europe, Korea and Cuba, the Americans were bent on stopping communism from spreading any further. With the cold war at its worst, the US leaders were worried that an attack on North Vietnam by the US would create tensions with the Chinese and Russians that would in turn lead to a larger conflict and possibly WW III. This created a difficult situation for the US and would eventually lead to many inside conflicts, which ultimately prevented the US from forming firm laws for the region. The US was also faced with a number of cultural problems between the two countries, and what was