Trivia: Before the Vietnam War, Vietnam was a colony of what country?
United Kingdom
Netherlands
United States
France
The correct answer is France
So why is this answer correct? : From the late 1800s to around 1950, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia were part of an area known as French Indochina, and were generally under French colonial rule. During World War II, Japan invaded Vietnam and Hồ Chí Minh took the opportunity to fight for Vietnamese independence.