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Vietnamese Nationalism The Vietnamese had to take the rights steps toward independence. The people of Vietnam utilized the right tactics at the right times. The Vietnamese suffered much torture and confusion brought about from alienating countries (France, Japan, and the United States). These countries made a civilian war into something so much more chaotic. The Vietnamese resisted the French because they wanted to be free to make their own decision without the interference of an outside entity. The only reason why the resisting occurred was because the slavery and brutality the French were inflicting on the Vietnamese was intolerable. Vietnamese nationalism was an important factor in determining the Vietnamese people's motives for defending their country against the French and later the United States. Since the United States did not understand the nature of Vietnamese nationalism, the United States helped the South Vietnamese. The South Vietnamese at first didn’t follow Ho Chi Minh’s belief of communism. When Ho Chi Minh started to gain power in the south, the country of Vietnam united. The United States focused on the apparent threat of Communism. The Americans fought a war without realizing the strength of the un