In October of _____, the French bombarded Haiphong, a port in northern Vietnam, and there began the eight-year war between the Vietminh movement and the French over who would rule Vietnam. After the Communist victory in China in ____ and the Korean war the following year, the United States began giving large amounts of military aid to the French. By ____, the United States had given ____ small arms and machine guns, enough to equip the entire French army in Indochina, and _______; all together, the U.S. was financing 80 percent of the French war effort.
