Vietnam War (Timeline):
From 1883: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos was ruled by France as French Indochina.
As Germany invaded France in WWII, Japan took over Vietnam.
1945: Japan was defeated. The Vietnam communists -- the Vietminh, led by Ho Chi Minh, took over Vietnam.
British and Chinese troops reclaimed Vietnam for the French, but the communists retaliated. The French then set up a State of Vietnam under Bao Dai to oppose the communists.
In 1954, the warring parties agreed to split Vietnam into the North under Ho Chi Minh and the South under Bao Dai.
1965: The Vietminh-backed Viet Cong started a rebellion in the South. The USA began to bomb North Vietnam while the USSR and China supplied them with arms.
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