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Vietnam War: Causes, Facts & Impact | HISTORY

Table of Contents ... The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South ...

Vietnam War | Facts, Summary, Years, Timeline ... - Britannica

The Vietnam War (1954–75) was a conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, the Viet ...

Vietnam War - Digital History

Vietnam was the longest war in American history and the most unpopular American war of the 20th century. It resulted in nearly 60,000 American deaths and in an ...

Vietnam War Facts, Stats and Myths - US Wings

The average infantryman in Vietnam saw about 240 days of combat in one year thanks to the mobility of the helicopter. One out of every 10 Americans who served ...

Vietnam War Fast Facts - CNN

Here's a look at the Vietnam War. Causes of Vietnam War 1883-1945 - Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam,

Vietnam War - Wikipedia

Vietnam War ; North Vietnam & Viet Cong 30,000–182,000 civilian dead · 849,018 military dead (per Vietnam; 1/3 non-combat deaths) · 666,000–950,765 dead (US ...

Vietnam War - Naval History and Heritage Command

The wars in Vietnam lasted thirty years. They began when France tried to restore colonial rule after World War II.

Vietnam War | High Point, NC

More than 3 million people, including over 58,000 Americans, were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians.

Vietnam War U.S. Military Fatal Casualty Statistics | National Archives

The Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files contains records of 58,220 U.S. military ...

Vietnam War | Key Facts - Britannica

Vietnam was a colonial possession of France from 1883 until the Vietnamese victory at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu on May 7, 1954.

U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive, 1968

In late January, 1968, during the lunar new year (or “Tet”) holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a ...

10 Vietnam War Facts You Should Know | Holidify

Here are 10 facts that you probably did not know about the Vietnam War: 1. President Kennedy wanted to get the US Army out of Vietnam.

Vietnam War: Dates and Timeline | HISTORY

The Vietnam War pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States. The war ended when US forces withdrew in 1973.

Highlighting History: How "Tet" Began the End of Vietnam

Essentially, the Tet Offensive was the beginning of the end of the Vietnam War. It took seven more years of fighting to officially come to a ...

The Vietnam War (article) | 1960s America - Khan Academy

The Vietnam War was a prolonged military conflict that started as an anticolonial war against the French and evolved into a Cold War confrontation between ...

Vietnam War Statistics - VVA310.org

Approximately 2,594,000 US Servicemen served in country during the Vietnam War. 1,736,000 were US Army. 391,000 were US Marines. 293,000 were US Airmen. 174,000 ...

Reasons for US involvement in Vietnam - The Vietnam War - BBC

After World War Two Ho Chi Minh captured Hanoi in 1945 and declared Vietnam independent. The French tried to take control again, but this was unpopular with the ...

Key Battles | Vietnam War | Pritzker Military Museum & Library

Vietnam, unlike many other wars, was not a conflict defined by a series of pitched battles. Prolonged, limited engagement was a frequent occurrence for many ...

The Vietnam War: Facts & Info About the Most Controversial US ...

The Vietnam War was the longest in US history until the Afghanistan War (2002-2014). The war was extremely divisive in the US, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere.

Vietnam War - Naval History and Heritage Command

Although advisory activities continued into 1975 and the fall of Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, the last regular U.S. combat unit left South Vietnam in ...