The flag of Vietnam consists of a yellow star on a red background. Red is the colour often associated with the international communist movement. The Vietnam flag uses red to symbolise its social revolution and the blood lost in achieving this. The star represents the five classes of society in Vietnam – intellectuals, farmers, workers, businessmen and military.
Prior to the WWII, Vietnam had been under French rule. The Vietnam flag was first used in November 1940 at an uprising in southern Vietnam against French rule. In 1941, the flag was used by the Viet-Minh (a communist led organisation in Vietnam) to protest against Japanese occupation.
At the end of WWII, the Viet-Minh leader, Ho Chi Minh, proclaimed Vietnam independent from French rule and on 5th September 1945 signed a decree adopting the flag as the flag of North Vietnam. The flag was slightly modified in 1955 (the edges of the star were made sharper) and is still used today.
South Vietnam (also known as the Republic of Vietnam) was recognised internationally as a country in 1949 after anti-communist politicians formed a rival government to Ho Chi Minh. South Vietnam adopted its own flag consisting of a yellow background and three red horizontal stripes. The red symbolising the peoples blood running through the whole country. The flag was used by South Vietnam until 1975 after the fall of its capital Saigon and Vietnam became a unified communist country. This yellow flag is still used today by Vietnam immigrants, most of whom fled in the late 1970s and 1980s to escape the communist regime.
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