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Vietnam country profile. Read more about sharing. Vietnam, a one-party Communist state, has one of south-east Asia's fastest-growing economies and has set its sights on becoming a developed nation by 2020. It became a unified country once more in 1975 when the armed forces of the Communist north seized the south.
Ho Chi Minh was a communist leader who was trying to spread communism throughout all of vietnam. During that time, there was a containment policy in the US that pledged assistance to any country that was suffering from communism. This is why the US sent troops to the US to fight the communist vietcong.