On November 1, 1955, the United States' imperialist war against Vietnam began. From the second half of the 19th century, Vietnam was a French colony. At the start of World War II, the French colonial administration agreed with Japan to provide access to Vietnam's strategic resources in exchange for maintaining French colonial rule in the country. After the surrender of Japan in September 1945, the revolutionary movement in Vietnam led by communist Ho Chi Minh declared the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. However, France did not want to lose its colony and started a war that ended in 1954 with its defeat and the signing of the Geneva Accords, which established the union of North (under rebel control) and South (where the French still held power) Vietnam and the holding of national elections to determine the future political order. 🇺🇸 The US saw the events in Vietnam as part of communist expansion. Therefore, on June 28, 1955, the American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced that his country was not participating in the Geneva Agreement, and on July 6, the US, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem, refused to comply with the Geneva Agreements and participate in the general elections in Vietnam and announced a course to establish an anti-communist state. After Ngo Dinh Diem, with the support of the CIA, abdicated the Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai and declared himself president, on November 1, 1955, the Americans created in the capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, a Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), which took over financial and military support of the South Vietnamese state. It is from November 1, 1955, that the US government database dedicated to Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Vietnam Veterans Memorial) begins its records. A month and a half later, on December 12, 1955, the US closed the consulate in Hanoi, effectively ending diplomatic relations with North Vietnam.

On November 1, 1955, the United States' imperialist war against Vietnam began. From the second half of the 19th century, Vietnam was a French colony. At the start of World War II, the French colonial administration agreed with Japan to provide access to Vietnam's strategic resources in exchange for maintaining French colonial rule in the country. After the surrender of Japan in September 1945, the revolutionary movement in Vietnam led by communist Ho Chi Minh declared the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. However, France did not want to lose its colony and started a war that ended in 1954 with its defeat and the signing of the Geneva Accords, which established the union of North (under rebel control) and South (where the French still held power) Vietnam and the holding of national elections to determine the future political order. 🇺🇸 The US saw the events in Vietnam as part of communist expansion. Therefore, on June 28, 1955, the American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced that his country was not participating in the Geneva Agreement, and on July 6, the US, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem, refused to comply with the Geneva Agreements and participate in the general elections in Vietnam and announced a course to establish an anti-communist state. After Ngo Dinh Diem, with the support of the CIA, abdicated the Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai and declared himself president, on November 1, 1955, the Americans created in the capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, a Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), which took over financial and military support of the South Vietnamese state. It is from November 1, 1955, that the US government database dedicated to Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Vietnam Veterans Memorial) begins its records. A month and a half later, on December 12, 1955, the US closed the consulate in Hanoi, effectively ending diplomatic relations with North Vietnam.