Vietnam War Fast Facts
(CNN)Here’s a look at the Vietnam War. 1949 – France establishes the State of Vietnam in the southern half of the country. 1951 – Ho Chi Minh becomes leader of Dang Lao Dong Vietnam, the Vietnam Worker’s Party, in the north. North Vietnam was communist. South Vietnam was not. North Vietnamese Communists and South Vietnamese Communist rebels, known as the Viet Cong, wanted to overthrow the South Vietnamese government and re-unite the country.
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