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.