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French Protectorate
Vietnam was part of the french Indochina with other neighbor countries and regions -
Religion in Vietnam
The french indochina made the catholicism the main religion in Vietnam -
The Communism
The marxists ideas started to influenciase in Vietnam, Nguyễn Ái Quốc (Ho Chi Minh) acted like an agent of the comintern to help build Communist movements in Southeast Asia -
The ICP (Indochinese Communist Party)
The Comintern sent Ho Chi Minh to Hong Kong to coordinate the unification of the parties into the Vietnamese Communist Party (CPV) with Trần Phú as the first Secretary General. Later the party changed its name to the Indochinese Communist Party -
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Conflicts
1941 - ICP organises a guerrilla force, Viet Minh, in response to invasion by Japan during World War II.
1945 - The Viet Minh seizes power. Ho Chi Minh announces Vietnam's independence.
1946 - French forces attack Viet Minh in Haiphong in November, the start of the war of resistance against the colonial power. -
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Vietam's Split
1950 - Democratic Republic of Vietnam is recognised by China and USSR.
1954 - Viet Minh forces attack an isolated French military outpost in the town of Dien Bien Phu. The French government agrees to peace talks in Geneva.
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U.S. in the war
1963 -President Diem is overthrown and then killed in a US-backed military coup.
1964 - Gulf of Tonkin incident: the US says North Vietnamese patrol boats fire on two US Navy destroyers. US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorising military action in region.
1968 - Tet Offensive - an assault by Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army on US positions - begins. Thousands are killed by communist forces during their occupation of the city of Hue.
1969 - Ho Chi Minh dies. -
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The end of the war
1970 - Nixon's national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, and Le Duc Tho, for the Hanoi government, start talks in Paris.
1973 - Ceasefire agreement in Paris, US troop pull-out was completed by March.
1975 - North Vietnamese troops invade South Vietnam and take control of the whole country after South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh
