In 1862, Lincoln adopted the radicalRepublican position that emancipation was a military necessity. Eventually Lincoln justified the war inabolitionist terms. After the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect (January 1863) the war lastedfor almost two more years and public discontent with the war increased.
Following a Japanese occupation in the 1940s, the Vietnamese fought French rule in the First Indochina War, eventually expelling the French in 1954. Thereafter, Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states, North and South Vietnam.ietnam's independence was gradually eroded by France â aided by large Catholic militias â in a series of military conquests between 1859 and 1885. In 1862, the southern third of the country became the French colony of Cochinchina.
North Vietnam and South Vietnam were divided (much like Korea) between the superpowers, with North Vietnam aligned with China/USSR; South Vietnam aligned with US.(It was part of the spheres of influence post World War II division of nation states, with MAD).orth Vietnam and South Vietnam were divided (much like Korea) between the superpowers, with North Vietnam aligned with China/USSR; South Vietnam aligned with US.