# Vietnam War

| Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam) |
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| Pairt o the Indocheenae Wars an the Cauld War |
| File:VNWarMontage.png Clockwise, frae tap left: US combat operations in Ia Drang, ARVN Rangers defendin Saigon during the 1968 Tet Offensive, twa Douglas A-4C Skyhawks enroute for airstrikes against North Vietnam efter the Gulf o Tonkin incident, ARVN recaptur Quảng Trị during the 1972 Easter Offensive, ceevilians fleein the 1972 Battle o Quảng Trị, burial o 300 victims o the 1968 Huế Massacre. |
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| Date | December 1956 (1956-12) – 30 Apryle 1975 (1975-04-30) (18 years, 4 months, 4 weeks and 1 day) |
| Location | Sooth Vietnam, North Vietnam, Cambodie, Laos, Thailand |
| Result |
Communist decisive victory
* U. S. military an political defeat
* Communist govrenments tak pouer in Sooth Vietnam, Cambodie an Laos
* Sooth Vietnam is annexed bi North Vietnam
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| Territorial changes |
Unification o North an Sooth Vietnam intae the Socialist Republic o Vietnam. |

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| Belligerents |
| **Anti-communist forces:**
 Sooth Vietnam
 Unitit States
 Sooth Korea
 Australie
 Thailand
 New Zealand
 Khmer Republic
 Kinrick o Laos
**Supportit bi:**
 Philippines
 Taiwan
 Canadae
 Fraunce
 Wast Germany
 Unitit Kinrick
 Japan
 Iran
 Spain | **Communist forces:**
 North Vietnam
 Viet Cong
 Khmer Rouge
 Pathet Lao
**Supportit bi:**
 Cheenae
 Soviet Union
 Cuba
 North Korea
 Czechoslovakie
 Bulgarie |
| Commanders an leaders |
|  Ngô Đình Diệm  Nguyễn Văn Thiệu  Nguyen Cao Ky  Cao Văn Viên  Ngô Quang Trưởng  John F. Kennedy  Lyndon B. Johnson  Richard Nixon  William Westmoreland  Creighton Abrams  Robert McNamara  Park Chung-hee  Chae Myung Shin  Robert Menzies  Harold Holt  Keith Holyoake  Thanom Kittikachorn ...*an ithers* |  Ho Chi Minh  Le Duan  Võ Nguyên Giáp  Van Tien Dung  Le Trong Tan  Phạm Văn Đồng  Hoang Van Thai  Tran Van Tra  Nguyen Van Linh  Nguyễn Hữu Thọ ...*an ithers* |
| Strenth |
| **~1,830,000 (1968)**
Sooth Vietnam: 850,000 (1968) 1,500,000 (1974-5)
Unitit States: 536,100
Free Warld Militar Forces: 65,000
Sooth Korea: 50,000
Australie: 7,672
Thailand, Philippines: 10,450
New Zealand: 552 | **~781,000**
North Vietnam: 287,465 (Januar 1968) ~1,000,000 (1974-5)
Cheenae: 320,000
Soviet Union: 3,000
North Korea: 300–600 |
| Casualties an losses |
|  **Sooth Vietnam** 195,000–430,000 ceevilian dead 220,357 – 313,000 militar dead 1,170,000 woondit[*citation needit*]
 **Unitit States** 58,220 dead; 303,644 woondit
 **Sooth Korea** 5,099 dead; 10,962 woondit; 4 missin
 **Australie** 500 dead; 3,129 woondit
 **New Zealand** 37 dead; 187 woondit
 **Thailand** 351 dead;1,358 woondit  **Philippines** 9 dead
**Tot deid: 480,538–807,564Tot woondit: ~1,490,000+[*citation needit*]** |  **North Vietnam & Viet Cong** 50,000-65,000 ceevilian dead 400,000–1,100,000 militar dead or missin 600,000+ woondit
 **P.R. Cheenae** 4000+ dead
 **Soviet Union** 16 dead
**Tot dead: 455,462–1,170,462Tot woondit: ~608,200** |
| **Aircraft lossesVietnamese ceevilian dead**: 245,000–2,000,000
**Cambodian Ceevil War dead**: 200,000–300,000\*
**Laotian Ceevil War dead**: 20,000–200,000\*
**Tot ceevilian dead:** 465,000–2,500,000\*\*
**Tot dead**: 1,102,000–3,886,026
\* indicates approximations
 \*\* This figure includes aw o the dead frae the Laotian an Cambodian ceevil wars. |

The **Vietnam War** (Vietnamese: *Chiến tranh Việt Nam*, in Vietnam cried the **American War** an aa, Vietnamese: *Chiến tranh Mỹ, Kháng chiến chống Mỹ*), cried the **Seicont Indocheenae War** an aa, wis a Cauld War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, an Cambodia frae December 1956 tae the faw o Saigon on 30 Aprile 1975. This war follaed the First Indocheenae War an wis foucht atween North Vietnam—supportit bi Cheenae an ither communist allies—an the govrenment o Sooth Vietnam—supportit bi the Unitit States an ither anti-communist kintras. The Viet Cong (cried the Naitional Liberation Front, or NLF an aa), a lichtly airmed Sooth Vietnamese communist common front directit bi the North, foucht a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. The Fowk's Airmy o Vietnam (a.k.a. the North Vietnamese Airmy) engaged in a mair conventional war, at times committin lairge units intae battle. U.S. an Sooth Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority an owerwhelmin firepouer tae conduct search an destroy operations, involvin grund forces, artillery, an airstrikes.

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