After WWII Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Communist Vietnamese, believed that the U.S. would not allow France to reoccupy to its former colony, since the OSS promised that to Minh during the war. When French soldiers returned to reassert their authority and reclaim their colony a bitter nine year war began that ended in a French defeat that divided Vietnam into two halves. One, the north, became communist, while the south was under U.S. influence.
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