USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The United States provided financial support to France’s fight against Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh from the 1940s until direct U.S. involvement. While Americans were girding to fight the Civil War in 1860, the French were beginning a century-long imperial involvement in Indochina.

Detailed explanation-2: -The United States supported France in Vietnam because it did not want Vietnam to become a communist country. The USA was worried by the fact that China and Korea had already become communist and they did not want communism to spread further in the region.

Detailed explanation-3: -America wanted France as an ally in its Cod War effort to contain the Soviet Union. Truman believed that if he supported Vietnamese independence, he would weaken anticommunist forces in France. To ensure French support in the Cold war, Truman agreed to aid France’s efforts to regain control over Vietnam.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ho Chi Minh’s communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam took control of the zone to the north of the 17th parallel, while the State of Vietnam, created by the French in 1949 and increasingly supported by the Americans, administered the south.