Tet is a huge holiday in Vietnam marking the start of the Lunar New Year. and South Vietnamese troops? It all had to do with timing. How was the enemy able to get the jump on U.S. “The Vietnam War was at once a war to reconcile issues of European imperialism in a new postcolonial space, a war between Marxism-Leninism and Democratic-Capitalism, and a war between Vietnamese parties,” says Nguyen. Eisenhower, put forth the Domino Theory that a communist victory in Vietnam would create a domino effect in Southeast Asia… and therefore must be prevented at all costs. Truman’s Truman Doctrine pledged political, military, and economic assistance to democratic nations facing threats from communist forces. Mao Zedong proclaimed the creation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, and in January 1950, China joined with the Soviet Union to formally recognize the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam.ĭuring the Cold War, the U.S. and The Soviet Union were at an all-time high. Vietnam was divided during the Cold War when tensions between the U.S. Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University. “The ‘temporary’ division of the country at the seventeenth parallel into two ideologically-opposed states meant that the civil conflict in Vietnam would collide full-scale with the East-West rivalry,” says Lien-Hang T. An election was scheduled in two years’ time to unify Vietnam, but the U.S., fearful that a national election would lead to communist rule, ensured it never took place. North Vietnam would be ruled by Ho Chi Minh’s communist government and South Vietnam would be led by emperor Bao Dai. The Geneva Accords were signed in July of 1954 and split Vietnam at the 17th parallel. The resulting Geneva Accords would dissolve the French Indochinese Union. Diplomats from the United States, the USSR, the People's Republic of China, the United Kingdom, North and South Korea, and France, as well as representatives from the Viet Minh (northern Vietnam), the State of Vietnam (southern Vietnam), Cambodia, and Laos, in session at the Geneva Conference in July 1954.
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