when did the vietnam war start and end
Vietnam War. The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiáº¿n tranh Viá»t Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: KhÃ¡ng chiáº¿n chá»ng Má»¹) or simply the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.