Most Vietnamese are not refugees and most refugees are not Vietnamese. Those Vietnamese that became refugees in the 1940s-1980s fled the violence of the Indochina Wars, which destroyed Vietnam and made life difficult for many Vietnamese.
Not only Vietnamese people are refugees; any other group of people can be refugees too. Vietnamese refugees became "boat people" because of the overwhelming destruction that was part of the Vietnam War.
Yes, they fled because they feared being murdered.
Communists were famous for "purging." When the south fell in '75; they thought they were going to be purged by the communists.
To defend against Communist expansion.
To make the South Viet government a communist government.
South Viet communists (VC) supported by NVA (Communist North Vietnamese Army) supplied by Communist China and Communist Soviet Union.
Yes. They were a Vietnamese Communist paramilitary organization primarily based in South Vietnam in support of the North Vietnamese military forces. The Viet Cong was dissolved in 1976 when South Vietnam capitulated to North Vietnamese military forces.
North Vietnam was pro-communist. South Vietnam was anti-communist.
Communists were famous for "purging." When the south fell in '75; they thought they were going to be purged by the communists.
To defend against Communist expansion.
The US was on the SOUTH Vietnamese side. The enemy was the NORTH Vietnamese...two separate countries. The Southerners were non-communist; the Northerners were communists.
To make the South Viet government a communist government.
North Vietnam & VC living in South VN.
The US wasn't fighting the Vietnamese. The US was fighting the communist NORTH Vietnamese. The SOUTH Viets were friends of the US.
became Communist and reunited with North Vietnam
Communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954-75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War.
Communist.
South Viet communists (VC) supported by NVA (Communist North Vietnamese Army) supplied by Communist China and Communist Soviet Union.
Yes. They were a Vietnamese Communist paramilitary organization primarily based in South Vietnam in support of the North Vietnamese military forces. The Viet Cong was dissolved in 1976 when South Vietnam capitulated to North Vietnamese military forces.