They controlled North Vietnam, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and probably controlled the their ally, the VC.
When France left Vietnam in 1954 part of the country was controlled by the communists, and part was democratically controlled. The Communist controlled are became North Vietnam, and the Democratic area became South Vietnam.
North Vietnam was controlled by communists.
Partition of Vietnam happened in 1954.
Vietnam. NOT France.
Vietnam was divided in 1954 into North Vietnam and South Vietnam following the First Indochina War.
In 1948 in Korea, the Communists controlled the northern half of the country and the US-Allied Capitalist Dictators controlled the southern half of the country. After the Korean War in 1953, this situation was preserved. In the 1980s, the Capitalist Dictators in the south gave way to a democracy.In 1954 in Vietnam, the Communists controlled the northern half of the country and the US-Allied Capitalist Dictators controlled the southern half of the country. After the Vietnam War in 1975, the Communists were able to unite the entire country and remain in power to this day.
The Geneva Accords of 1954, which ended the First Indochina War, created two Vietnamese states, one controlled by the Viet Minh north of the 17th parallel and one controlled by the State of Vietnam (the former administrators of colonial Vietnam) south of the 17th parallel. The United States and France maintained their defense of the State of Vietnam (which would become the Republic of Vietnam or "South Vietnam"), which prevented the Viet Minh from forcibly uniting the two Vietnams until 1975.
the french controlled indochina because they moved in on an are of Vietnam (after the US had attacked it) because they were getting revenge for the captured religious officials. they gradually took over Vietnam, cambodia, and laos with the help of the british alliance in the second opium war with china.
North Vietnam was created in 1954.
1954
The Vietnam War was fought from 1955 - 1975. Not 1954.