Ho Chi Minh admired the US and actually modeled his nationalist revolution on the US revolution, even using the preamble to the US Declaration of Independence i

Ho Chi Minh admired the US and actually modeled his nationalist revolution on the US revolution, even using the preamble to the US Declaration of Independence in his own Declaration of Independence. http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/vietnam/independence.pdf http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/vietnam/independence.pdf The US initially supported his independence movement, during and just after the war, but then sided with the French suppression of it and started it’s long involvement in the conflict.