Sep 19, 2018 · Vietnam is a country in south-east Asia, bordering China, Laos and Cambodia. It was colonised by France in the 1800s and then invaded by the Japanese in 1941. 2. The end of World War II and the withdrawal of the Japanese left Vietnam leaderless.

Sep 13, 2017 · The Vietnam War started in the 1950s, according to most historians, though the conflict in Southeast Asia had its roots in the French colonial period of the 1800s. The United States, France, China ...

Oct 27, 2015 · The Vietnam War was a proxy war during the Cold War-era that took place between 1955 and 1975. The war was fought between the communist North Vietnam, the South Vietnamese communist force Viet Cong on one end and the non-communist South Vietnam on the other. The Vietnam War followed up the First Indochina War, partially, due to the …

Nguyễn Văn Lém (Vietnamese: [ŋʷǐənˀ vān lɛ̌m]; 1931/1932 – 1 February 1968), often referred to as Bảy Lốp, was a member of the Viet Cong.He was summarily executed in Saigon during the Tet Offensive in the Viet Nam War, when the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launched a massive surprise attack. Before being captured, Lém had allegedly murdered Lt. Col. Nguyen …

The Vietnam War began in 1954. The war had been going on for a long time before that, but the US only became involved in the war in 1954 when Ho’s communist forces won the battle of Dien Bien Phu. The US lost and left Indochina to Ho’s communist forces. A treaty was signed in July 1954. The treaty called for elections.

Four years after President John F. Kennedy sent the first American troops into Vietnam, Martin Luther King issued his first public statement on the war. Answering press questions after addressing a Howard University audience on 2 March 1965, King asserted that the war in Vietnam was “accomplishing nothing” and called for a negotiated settlement (Schuette, “King Preaches …