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Oct 29, 2009 · The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was ...
1 day ago · The Vietnam War (1954–75) was a conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. It was part of a larger regional conflict as well as a manifestation of the Cold War.
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- The United States had provided funding, armaments, and training to South Vietnam’s government and military since Vietnam’s partition into the commu...
- By nearly every metric, the Vietnam War was, in the common sense of the word, a war. The United States committed some 550,000 troops to the Vietnam...
- The question of who won the Vietnam War has been a subject of debate, and the answer depends on the definition of victory. Those who argue that the...
- In 1995 Vietnam released its official estimate of the number of people killed during the Vietnam War: as many as 2,000,000 civilians on both sides...
The Cold War was a rivalry that began at the end of World War Two between two superpowers, the USA and the USSR. It led to many crises around the world, such as the Berlin Wall and the Vietnam War ...
Background to the Vietnam War. Vietnam had been a French. colony. before it was occupied by the Japanese during World War Two. After World War Two it was returned to French control but many ...
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 [A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and a major conflict of the Cold War. While the war was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, the north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other ...
Aug 20, 2020 · Vietnam was a battleground in the Cold War when the United States and the Soviet Union grappled for world domination. By the war’s end, North and South Vietnam would be reunited, but at great cost.
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The Gulf of Tonkin. In August 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, an American naval vessel, was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin, just off the coast of North Vietnam, by North Vietnamese torpedo boats ...
