Now Viewing: vietnam_warTag type: General The Second Indochina War, known in the West as the Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), and known in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply The American War, was a collection of conflicts that occurred side-by-side in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1955 to 1975. It was officially a conflict between North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies, and South Vietnam, supported by the United_States, South_Korea, Australia, New_Zealand, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war is therefore considered a Cold_War-era proxy war. The National Liberation Front (known in the West by the insult "Viet_Cong", or VC, meaning "Red Vietnamese"), a South Vietnamese communist common front aided by the North, fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. While the People's_Army_of_Vietnam, also known as the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), engaged in more conventional warfare, at times committing large units to battle. Opposing them both was South Vietnam's Army_of_the_Republic_of_Vietnam. At the same time, communist-supported insurgencies fought against Western-supported governments in both Laos (Pathet_Lao) and Cambodia (Khmer_Rouge), and fighting in Vietnam frequently spilled over into those two countries. American involvement in the war peaked in 1968, the same year that the communist side launched the Tet_Offensive. The capture of Saigon on 30 April 1975 by the North Vietnamese Army marked the end of the war in Vietnam, and North and South Vietnam were officially reunified the following year under a communist government. The Khmer Rouge and Pathet Lao also successfully took control of their respective countries in 1975. Related Tags:History:* First_Indochina_War * Third_Indochina_War * PTSD * Tag_group:History Media: * Apocalypse_Now * Full_Metal_Jacket * Good_Morning_Vietnam * Platoon * Rambo Vehicles: * CH-47_Chinook * UH-1_Iroquois * F-4_Phantom_II * MiG-21 Weapons * FN_FAL * M16a1 * M60_(machine_gun) * M79 * Kalashnikov_rifle * SKS Examples: * post #13304482 * post #11542684 * post #10177276 * post #12455626 * post #7640798 External links: * Wikipedia: Vietnam War: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War Other Wiki Information Last updated: 10/03/26 3:10 AM by doopaboop This entry is not locked and you can edit it as you see fit. |
     
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