Vietnam had been a French colony close colonyA country, state or territory ruled over by another country, state or territory. before it was occupied by the Japanese during World War Two.

In 1954, U.S. Air Force planes began flying French troops to Indochina to reinforce ... In 1975, Nguyen Van Thieu resigned as president of South Vietnam after denouncing the United States as ...

The French tried to take control again ... By 1968 over half a million American troops were in Vietnam and the war was costing $77 billion a year.

In 1921, after Germany failed to make its first war reparation payment, French troops occupied Dusseldorf ... U.S. Marines landed in Da Nang, South Vietnam. It was the first deployment of a ...