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Vietnam War
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Vietnam War
Descriptive: Vietnam War The Vietnam War was a military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975. It began as a determined attempt by Communist guerrillas (Vietcong) in the South,backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. The struggle widened into a ward between South Vietnam and North Vietnam andultimately into a limited international conflict. The United States and some othercountries supported South Vietnam by supplying troops and munitions, and the USSRand the People’s Republic of China furnished munitions to North Vietnam and theVietcong. On both sides, however, the burden of the war fell mainly on the civilians. The war also engulfed Laos, where the Communist Pathet Lao fought governmentfrom 1965 to 1973 and succeeded in abolishing the monarchy in 1975, and Cambodia,where the government surrendered in 1973 to the Communist Khmer Rouge. The position taken by Diem won the backing of the U. S. The government inHanoi, however, indicated its determination to renunify the nation under Hanoi. Thetruce arranged at Geneva began to crumble and by January 1957, the InternationalControl Commission set up to implement the Geneva accords was reporting armisticeviolations by both North and South Vietnam. Throughout the rest of the year, Comunistsympathizers who had gone north after partition began returning south in increasingnumbers. The Vietcong’s began launching attacks on U. S. military installations that hadbeen...
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