Indochina Wars

The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until US forces were withdrawn in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian civil wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.

1946–1954 French colonial war in Vietnam

war between the People's Republic of China and Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1979

theory concerning the influence of Communism

series of wars fought in Southeast Asia from 1946 until 1991

campaigns of the Pacific War in Burma, Ceylon, India, Thailand, Indochina, the Philippines, Malaya and Singapore

short confrontation between Thai and Laotian forces (December 1987 – February 1988)

series of wars in Indochina following the end of the Vietnam War

military conflict

series of border and naval clashes between China and Vietnam

guerrilla war that lasted from 1965 to 1983

Chinese Nationalist forces in Vietnam post-World War II

war between Laos and China in 1967