When:
1955-1975
What
happened?
-France
tried to take over Vietnam and failed.
-France
left a government in the South.
-Communists
set up in Hanoi.
-Many
people left and went South to the president Ngo Dinh Diem and formed a republic.
-The
Communists tried to take over the South.
-November
1963 Diem was executed.
-Aided
by the China and Russia the Communists tried to take over the whole country.
-In
the end the North beat the South in 1975.
Here
is a map of Vietnam: