Vietnam War
Also known as American War, Second Indochina War, American War in Vietnam
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 Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until US forces were withdrawn in 1973.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.
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The Vietnam War was an armed conflict fought from 1965 to 1973 between North Vietnam (supported by the Soviet Union and China) and South Vietnam (supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies) that also spread into Laos and Cambodia. It matters as a major Cold War proxy conflict and a defining moment in postcolonial history that ultimately resulted in communist governments taking control of all three countries by 1975.
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