What were the reasons why the Vietnam War start?
There were several reasons why the war in Vietnam started, I’ll try to make my answer brief and to the point. The first reason being the Vietnamese wanted independence from France, in the form of a socialist republic. That is what they fought for, and that is what they envisioned when the Viet Minh declared the independence of Vietnam on September 2nd, 1945. The French, in turn fought to keep Indochina, as they called Vietnam, a French colony. The French, after five years of fighting against the Vietnamese could not win the war. The U.S., fearing no chance to spread its capitalist ideology in Asia, after China became the People’s Republic of China, and Korea fought a civil war, stepped into the war in Vietnam to bolster the losing side – the French colonialists. Make no mistake, the French never instituted democracy in Vietnam. After the Geneva Accords in 1954, the French were given time to leave Vietnam, and the Vietnamese were promised elections by 1956. The Vietnamese leader Ngo Din
