Vietnam War

Table columns:
Date
Location
Result
Territorial changes
South Vietnam  United States  South Korea  Thailand  Australia  Philippines  New Zealand  Khmer Republic  Kingdom of Laos Military support:  Taiwan[1][2] Other support[show]  Malaysia[3][4]  Spain[2]  Canada [2]  Iran[2]  West Germany[2]  Brazil[5]  Japan[2]
Ngô Đình Diệm †  Nguyễn Văn Thiệu  Nguyễn Cao Kỳ  Cao Văn Viên  Ngô Quang Trưởng  John F. Kennedy  Lyndon B. Johnson  Richard Nixon  Gerald Ford  Robert McNamara  William Westmoreland  Creighton Abrams  Frederick C. Weyand  Park Chung-hee  Thanom Kittikachorn  Robert Menzies  Harold Holt  John McEwen  John Gorton  William McMahon  Ferdinand Marcos  Keith Holyoake  Jack Marshall  Norman Kirk  Chiang Kai-Shek …and others
≈1,420,000 (1968)  South Vietnam: 850,000 (1968) 1,500,000 (1974–75)[21]  United States: 543,000 (April 1969)[22][23]  South Korea: 50,003  Thailand: 11,570[24]  Australia: 7,672  Philippines: 2,061  New Zealand: 552[25]
South Vietnam 195,000–430,000 civilian dead[32][33][34] 220,357[35]–313,000 military dead[36] 1,170,000 wounded[37]  United States 58,220 dead;[38] 303,644 wounded (including 150,341 not requiring hospital care)[A 2]  South Korea 5,099 dead; 10,962 wounded; 4 missing  Australia 521 dead; 3,129 wounded [43]  Thailand 351 dead; 1,358 wounded[44]  New Zealand 37 dead; 187 wounded[45]  Taiwan 25 dead;[46]  Philippines 9 dead;[47] 64 wounded[48] Total military dead: 284,668–377,311 Total wounded: ≈1,340,000+[37]

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cells: Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam)
Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War
Clockwise, from top left: U.S. combat operations in Ia Drang, ARVN Rangers defending Saigon during the 1968 Tet Offensive, two A-4C Skyhawks after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, ARVN recapture Quảng Trị during the 1972 Easter Offensive, civilians fleeing the 1972 Battle of Quảng Trị, and burial of 300 victims of the 1968 Huế Massacre.
Date 1 November 1955[A 1] – 30 April 1975 (19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day) Location South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, South China Sea, Gulf of Thailand Result North Vietnamese victory Withdrawal of American-led forces from Indochina Communist governments take power in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos South Vietnam is annexed by North Vietnam Territorial changes Reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1 November 1955[A 1] – 30 April 1975 (19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)
South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, South China Sea, Gulf of Thailand
North Vietnamese victory Withdrawal of American-led forces from Indochina Communist governments take power in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos South Vietnam is annexed by North Vietnam
Reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Belligerents
North Vietnam  Viet Cong  Khmer Rouge  Pathet Lao  China  North Korea Military support:  Soviet Union  Cuba[6][7] Other support[show]  Czechoslovakia[8][9]  Bulgaria[10]  East Germany[11][12]  Romania[13]  Poland[14]  Hungary[14]  Sweden[15][16]
Commanders and leaders
Ho Chi Minh  Lê Duẩn  Võ Nguyên Giáp  Văn Tiến Dũng  Lê Trọng Tấn  Phạm Văn Đồng  Hoàng Văn Thái  Trần Văn Trà  Nguyễn Văn Linh  Nguyễn Hữu Thọ …and others
Strength
≈1,060,000 (1967)  North Vietnam: 690,000 (January 1967)[26]  Viet Cong: 200,000 (estimated, 1968)[27][25]  China: 170,000 (1967)[28][29][30]  North Korea: 200[31]
Casualties and losses
North Vietnam & Viet Cong 65,000 civilian dead[33] 849,018 military dead[49][50] 600,000+ wounded[51]  China ≈1,100 dead and 4,200 wounded[30]  North Korea 14 dead[52] Total military dead: 850,132+ Total wounded: ≈604,200
Vietnamese civilian dead: 627,000–2,000,000[33][53][54] Vietnamese total dead: 966,000[32]–3,091,000[55] Cambodian Civil War dead: 240,000–300,000*[56][57][58] Laotian Civil War dead: 20,000–62,000* Non-Indochinese military dead (sum): 65,425 Total dead (sum): 1,291,425–4,211,451 For more information see Vietnam War casualties and Aircraft losses of the Vietnam War * indicates approximations

Questions about this table:
originalText: who did the usa support in the vietnam war
answer: answerTexts: South Vietnam