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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The independence struggle continued, now with the support of the communist bloc, against the French who were finally defeated. The country was divided in two, with Ho Chi Minh taking control of the northern part. Those in the south wanting independence and the reunification of the country agitated for it and were supported by the north. The Americans, fearing a communist take over poured military aid into the south. In the end they were defeated and withdrew and the country was re-united. The US reneged on promises they made at the peace conference and attempted to ostracize the country.
An awful lot of people died, people lived through continous war for decades and it was all unecessary.
Ho Chi Minh was an admirer of the US. He wrote a Vietnamese declaration of independence based on the US one and was a US ally during WWII. If he'd been supported in his claim for independence at the end of WWII and the French had been kept out, then they'd have been no wars and the west would have gained a staunch friend in the region.
But its a bit more complicated than that, so you really need to do some research, read some books because you can't get a one line answer.
Diem was puppetted later by USA but was despotic, as he figured the USA required. The Media was effective in his assassination and the US involvement commenced in earnest. As usual since WW11 the US relied on overwhelming force, brutality and environmental destruction; it failed. Young men of my time were conscripted to fight under jurisdiction of the post-WW11 US military incomptence, inexperience, pigheadedness, obsessiveness and overkill demonstrated anywhere people resist. Iraq is one example..;three unecessary invasions led by marginally competent politicised generals operating too many fantasising troops. Uncounted deaths ..over 1.7 million. see part 2