Part one of term paper
Vietnam to 1960 The French took over Vietnam, assumed direct control and ran largely by Vietnamese labor. The French authorities had set up two groups which had the Grand Council tax the Vietnamese, protected monopolies, and turned over to a handful of Frenchmen and Vietnamese land farmed by the peasants. The military struggled to fight in ...

Part two of term paper
... North Vietnam came under the control of the Communists who had opposed France and whoever wanted to unify Vietnam under Communist rule. The South was controlled by Vietnamese who went with the French. The United State became involved in Vietnam because they believed that if all of the country fell under a Communist government, Communism would spread throughout Southeast Asia and then it would be all over the world. They could this the "domino theory". Then the US government supported the Sou ...