Hanoi Rocks

Fantastic Finnish glam rock

The Vietnam War was both a civil and proxy war, and the conflict originated in the late 1940s. Nationalist forces attempted to unify the country under a communist government. During World War II, Japan invaded and occupied Vietnam (which had been under French administration since the late 19th century). Ho Chi Minh found communist inspiration in China and the Soviet Union, and so he formed the Viet Minh to fight both Japanese and French colonial administration. Japan withdrew in 1945. French-educated Emperor Bao Dai controlled an independent Vietnam until Ho’s Viet Minh forces rose up and seized the northern city of Hanoi. Ho declared the nation the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and made himself president. In return, Bao established the state of Vietnam in July 1949, and made Saigon its capital.¹