At first, it seemed as though the Vietnam War was between North Vietnam and the U.S. with South Vietnam supporting them. In reality, the South Vietnam's Pro-Democratic government treated their people so badly, that they formed a secondary army, called the Vietcong or VC, and worked alongside the North Vietnamese to drive out the US forces. This was done so they could establish a Communist government because the new Capitalist government was not helping them.
The domino Effect is a phenomenon where a chain of consequences is created by a single event. As in a line of dominos, where 1 domino is struck, others fall as a consequence of the original action. As it pertains to the Vietnam war, the domino effect was the theory that the US government used to justify its intervention in Vietnam. The position of the pro-war, anti-communist advisers in the government was that if Vietnam was allowed to "fall" to communism, this would set off a 'domino effect' whereby first neighboring countries such as Laos, Cambodia and Thailand would fall into communist revolution, and by extension countries further afield would be overtaken as the global communist revolutionary movement gained momentum. According to this line of thinking, to stop communism in Vietnam was to stop the world from falling into communist control. This theory is disproved, as we know Communist North Vietnam defeated US forces, but this did not result in a domino effect of neighboring countries becoming communist.
The Americans were fighting the Japanese at the time and the vietminh were also fighting for independance hoping to gain the U.S. as a ally after the war . After WW II the Americans were afraid of the communist influence of the vietminh and decided that backing the French rule was a better decision wich could be adapted to a freely elected pro US form of government .
The Viet Cong (VC) were communists living in South Vietnam. Later, the regular army units of North Vietnam would enter the fight (NVA). Diem was the first president of South Vietnam in 1955. He was assassinated in 1963.
The Soviet Union.The Soviet Union, under Joseph Stalin, considered itself to be the world's leader of Communism, since they had the world's first and only Communist country (which is a bit of a contradiction, but that's a story for another time).As the Soviets liberated countries in Eastern Europe, they tended to work with local Communist parties in those countries, and then would install their leaders as the new rulers of the country. With a new Communist government in control, the Soviet Union would then control that government, and thus, that country.
Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the communist revolution against French colonialism in Vietnam. He was also the first President of North Vietnam.
Vladimir Lenin was the first communist leader for Russia. After the successful revolution against the Russian Provisional government in October, 1917, Lenin later discarded the term Bolshevik in favor of Communist. The party soon after changed the name of Russia to the Soviet Union.
There can be no such thing as a Communist government, as Communism is a classless stateless society. After 1949, under Mao Zedong, China was state capitalist.
Officially, the US has supported all anti-communist leadership of the Republic of South Vietnam, commencing with the first president, Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem, in 1955.
After the divide at the 17th parallel splitting Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh's communist forces were set up just north of the line. So, to the south the United States, and France, set up an Anticommunist government under Ngo Dinh Deim.
Enemy (North Vietnam) won the war. Edit: We didn't gain anything. We lost alot of lives. Nixon brought our troops home and let North Vietnam and South Vietnam work it out without our interference. Eventually, North Vietnam took over the South Vietnam government. Then there was no North and South Vietnam. It was just Vietnam. They had changed into an entirely communist government which is why America interfered in the first place. We were trying to prevent or stop communism from spreading. Communism: A type of government in which the government controls all the economic activities.
The final leader of the communist soviet union was Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Communist government of China first patterned their development on the U.S.S.R.'s actions.
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir I. Lenin
No. First of all, Asia is not a country. Asia is a continent. It has many countries. Some of those countries are communist, but many of them are not.
At first, it seemed as though the Vietnam War was between North Vietnam and the U.S. with South Vietnam supporting them. In reality, the South Vietnam's Pro-Democratic government treated their people so badly, that they formed a secondary army, called the Vietcong or VC, and worked alongside the North Vietnamese to drive out the US forces. This was done so they could establish a Communist government because the new Capitalist government was not helping them.