Causes of the Vietnam War

The Cold War It originated a series of international conflicts where the United States and the Soviet Union fought indirectly to demonstrate their military and social power. In this lesson from a TEACHER we bring you a Summary of the causes of the Vietnam War, one of the longest-lasting struggles in the history of the cold war and that ended with the defeat of the United States against the USSR, the latter achieving more power in the region.

In this summary of the causes of the Vietnam War we will briefly review the history from the gestation of the kingdom itself. We have to know that, in the 12th century, a series of peoples from southern China ended up settling in the lower basin of the Red River. For the year 1257 we have evidence of a peace agreement between the emperor of china and the vietnamese king, by which this kingdom promised to pay a series of tributes in exchange for peace for its people.

From that moment, we will find a series of changes of power where we will find periods of territorial expansion, with other moments in which they suffered great invasions. All of this ended in the 19th century, when

Spain and France divided up the Indochina peninsula.

From there, we will go to the time of Second World War, at which time we will find that the European colonies suffered an invasion of the empire that would keep the French leaders in order not to greatly alter the control of the Suburb. Although this series of actions created a fairly strong national feeling in the local population, they could verify that:

• Europeans weren't invincible and therefore the united people could destroy the colonial troops, in that way in Africa and Asia, A series of movements will begin to overthrow the colonial governments and thus be able to become free countries.
• The trading system established by Europe was based on the capitalist system, while, with the arrival of the new ideas brought with the war, the first movements arrived Communists to these countries, which would find in him an ally to be able to rise up against their Sirs.

After World War II, these countries began a series of uprisings that led to freedom with respect to the colonial countries, thus losing France all rights over it.

In this other lesson you will discover a Cold War summary.

Within our summary on the causes of the Vietnam War, we must know that said country would be divided into the North (communist) and the South (capitalist). The conflict would begin when North Vietnam, with the help of communist guerrillas, such as the Vietcong or the Frente de National Liberation, they started a war against South Vietnam to annex it and thus create a single communist country that would lean on China and the USSR.

Before the beginning of the first military movements On November 1, 1955, the United States decided to directly assist the southern troops, as they did previously in Korea. They decided to enter the conflict for fear of an expansion that would end up reaching Europe and covering all of Asia, leaving America alone in the face of the communist threat. For its part, the USSR, began to send troops, along with China.

This would be the first war of the entire cold war that began to be radio-transmitted, so the ideas about the intervention or not in the war on the part of the world population was changing throughout the conflict making much of the American country feel that they should not do it. It was a real massacreSo much so that at the end of the war the United States had to march leaving the communist troops to end up taking all the land on April 30, 1975.

The two main causes of the outbreak of the Vietnam War or those that gave rise to the beginning of the conflict (since we have already mentioned those that came from afar) were:

• The incident of Gulf of tonkin in 1964, which is why the United States entered the conflict directly.
• On November 1, 1955, the South Vietnamese government put an end to the idea of ​​a referendum for the reunification of the country, which is why the North began the belligerent movements.