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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 - North Vietnamese Communist leader; used guerrilla tactics to prolong the war and frustrate U.S. forces. New president Lyndon B. Johnson inherited a difficult situation in Vietnam, as the South Vietnamese government was in shambles and the Viet Cong was making large gains in rural areas of the South.