One of the main characteristics of american imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the idea of "Manifest Destiny", which held that the US was "destined" to expand.
The H* Chi Minh Trail was important to the North Vietnamese and the NLF because the trail was a route to move goods to allies in South Vietnam.
The north Vietnamese was able to control this territory and set up their guirella army in H*Chhimin. Which led to their victory in the vietnam war.
The H* Chí Minh trail constituted a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam through the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia.
