Your challenge is to get the U.S to suppor Ho Chi Minh in 1945, therefore causing a pro-U.S independent and united Vietnam from the late 1940s and no Vietnam War. How does it happen and what gets changed in history because of it?
Your challenge is to get the U.S to suppor Ho Chi Minh in 1945, therefore causing a pro-U.S independent and united Vietnam from the late 1940s and no Vietnam War. How does it happen and what gets changed in history because of it?
Well, wery easly in fact.
They just stay anti-colonialistic long enough to tell the French: the era of colonialism is over, and job is done.
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The problem with the US telling the French to screw off is that the US needed France a lot more than the Vietnamese. France was still an important European nation. Vietnam was some obscure country in an unimportant place.
Egypt was alot more unimportant then Britain and France, but the Americans still backed them during the Suez Crisis. The other posters are right in saying that all that is needed is a bit more anti-colonialism from the US government.The problem with the US telling the French to screw off is that the US needed France a lot more than the Vietnamese. France was still an important European nation. Vietnam was some obscure country in an unimportant place.
France in 1945 was an economic wreck with a military almost entirely armed with US and British equipment.
France is going to insist on keeping its colonial empire. The US doesn't care. Then it sees Europe is in danger of going Communist. It starts to support Europe. It gives France aid. France attempts to assert control in Indochina. The US says, "We'd prefer you not do that." France says, "We are going to anyway, and you need us if you want to help keep the Soviets out of Western Europe. This is important to us. It is not important to you. So back off." And the US will.
The problem with the US telling the French to screw off is that the US needed France a lot more than the Vietnamese. France was still an important European nation. Vietnam was some obscure country in an unimportant place.
Ho Chi Mihn was a communist since youth, infact he was one the founding fathers of the French Communist party, so I honestly doubt that America would work with him.
AFAIK Ho was a Nationalist first and a communist second, and as others have already stated he had cooperated with the OSS against the Japanese...as well as the 1945 Declaration of Independence for Vietnam, which borrowed heavily from the American DoI (if I recall correctly Ho was an admirer of Thomas Jefferson), I believe it's not too difficult to have the US continue to support him instead of abandoning him as in OTL.
Then it's America's problem, not Ho Chi Minh's. He was a Communist out of convenience, because he saw it as the best available means to national independence. No other political movement around at the time would give him the support he wanted.Ho Chi Mihn was a communist since youth, infact he was one the founding fathers of the French Communist party, so I honestly doubt that America would work with him.