France occupied Vietnam by 1884. After World War II Vietnam declared independence, but it wasn't until after 1954, when the French was defeated by Ho Chi Minh and his communist forces that Vietnam was free from France. Vietnam is located in Southeast Asia. In comparison to the U.S. Vietnam is about the size of New Mexico. The countries that border Vietnam are Cambodia, China and Laos. The climate of Vietnam goes from monsoons to warm and …showed first 75 words of 268 total…

…showed last 75 words of 268 total…based on communist legal theory and the French civil law system. The governemt has an executive branch, legislative branch and the judicial branch. But unlike the democratic U.S.A., the Vietnam government only has one party, Communist Party of Vietnam. Vietnam's economy is very poor, in 1997 it had a GDP of 8.5% and one year later it fell to 4%. One problem is that the private businesses no run by the government are not given financing.