Why was France willing to hand over command of the South Vietnamese army to the United States? The United States then sent 500,000 troops into battle
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War is often a struggle for interests, since the end of the Second World War, all countries in the world have suffered a lot of losses, but there are also countries in the Second World War to the end of the laughter, the most arrogant of which is the United States. As one of the victorious countries in World War II, the United States can be said to be full of spirit, but the cost of victory is also extremely heavy, and the United States is well aware of this, so they began to consider supporting their puppet state, and the best target of this puppet state is Vietnam.
Because around the end of World War II in 1945, Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the VietnamEse Independence League, suddenly unilaterally declared independence to France and launched a pursuit of the former Vietnamese Emperor Bao Da. Of course, the French who learned of this could not hand over this colony in their hands, so on April 27, 1949, the French supported the Bao Da to establish a Provisional Government of Vietnam in Saigon, referred to as South Vietnam, and began to fight against the North Vietnamese led by Ho Chi Minh.
Only on May 7, 1954, France was surrounded by the North Vietnamese People's Army at Dien Bien Phu, and the defeat of the war could only be declared surrender. On July 21, France and Vietnam signed an armistice in Geneva, attended by representatives of China, the United States, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos and other countries. However, although the French withdrew from control of the Vietnamese region, they came to a sneaky day, handing over the command of the South Vietnamese army to the United States in February 1955, while france itself sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight.
But what France doesn't know is that the United States doesn't care if they watch the theater or not, the United States only cares about whether this place in Vietnam is in its own hands. Because with the founding of the new China and the alliance between China and the Soviet Union, the United States began to worry about the rise of China, especially the direct contact between China and the United States in the Korean battlefield, which made the United States realize that China was a potential and huge threat. So in addition to supporting Japan to contain China, the United States also hopes to cause some obstacles to China through Vietnam, a Southeast Asian country.
Under the influence of this kind of thinking, the United States does not value vietnam for a star and a half. Coupled with south vietnam's original desire to restore the situation of the imperial state, the cooperation between the United States and South Vietnam was a one-shot deal. In this case, the United States supported Diệm Dinh Yan as the leader of South Vietnam, while socialist countries such as China and the Soviet Union supported North Vietnam, and since Ho Chi Minh's death, Lê Duần took over as the leader of North Vietnam.
Beginning in 1955, with the hint and support of the United States, South Vietnamese leader Diệm Diem formally launched an attack on the North Vietnamese Communist Party and began to hunt down and kill the North Vietnamese Communist Party. In order to counter the North Vietnamese Communist Party and Chinese guerrillas, the Kennedy administration organized a group of special forces to attack the North Vietnamese regime. These struggles were only "small fights and small troubles" in local areas, and they were all tests on each other by both sides, but when the United States overthrew Wu Tingyan and let Yang Wenming and others come to power, the war situation completely expanded.
In 1965, the United States was no longer satisfied with just fighting with vietnamese troops, but directly sent troops into the battlefield and carried out bombing operations against Vietnam, according to statistics at the time, a total of 500,000 American troops entered Vietnam, and the Chinese side also sent troops into Vietnam to begin to block the pace of the Us march. With the successful destruction of the Vietnamese rebel forces by the U.S. army, the Vietnamese army began to attack the U.S. forces with all its might, suspending the siege of the South Vietnamese armed forces.
This large-scale battle lasted for 3 years, and the two sides suffered mutual damage, until the United States could not withstand the accusations and humanitarian pressure from the people at home, and the United States began to be forced to withdraw from South Vietnam and began to start peace talks with the Vietnamese side. On January 27, 1973, the United States formally signed an armistice with Vietnam and announced that it would no longer interfere in any matters on the Vietnamese mainland, and the 12-year-long war of aggression against Vietnam officially ended.
The South Vietnamese government, which had lost the support of the United States, was also completely defeated by the North Vietnamese in the last wave of stubborn resistance, ending the division of Vietnam between the north and the south and completing the unification of Vietnam. This was a war of internal regimes on the surface, but in fact a war in which the world's countries were secretly competing, and it also came to an end with the victory of the North Vietnamese Communist Party and the defeat of the United States.