The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; South Vietnam wassupported by the United States. The war, considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some, lasted 19 years, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973.
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The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; South Vietnam wassupported by the United States. The war, considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some, lasted 19 years, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973. It also included the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian civil War, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975. North Vietnamese and Viet CongPRG victory: 1,420,000. Total military dead: 333,620–392,364. Total wounded: ≉1,340,000+: SecondThirdAmerican intervention 196519661967Tet Offensive and aftermathVietnamization 1969–71Easter Offensive Post-Paris Peace Accords Spring 1975. Air operationsNaval operations. Air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery, and airstrikes. The U. S. also conducted a large-scale strategic bombing campaign against North and Laos. The Tet Offensive of 1968 showed the lack of progress with these doctrines. The Army of the Republic of Vietnam expanded following a period of neglect after Tet and was modeled after U. s doctrine. The CIA’s Phoenix Program further degraded the VC’s capabilities.
By the end of the year, the VC insurgents held almost no territory in South Vietnam, and over 80% of their recruitment dropped by 80% in 1969, signifying a drastic reduction in guerrilla operations. By 1970, over 70% of communist troops in the south were no longer in the northerners and no longer dominated by the southern guerrillas. In 1969, North Vietnam declared a Provisional Revolutionary Government in an attempt to give the VC a more international stature, but the VC were then sidelined as PAVN forces on the southern side of the border were then on their own. In 1970, the Provisional Government of Vietnam was declared a state of war and declared a communist state. In 1971, the South Vietnamese government declared a government of national unity. In 1973, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies joined the anti-Communist movement in the South. In 1974, South Vietnam declared an independent state of state. The South Vietnamese state was known as the Socialist Republic of South Vietnam (S.V.C.S) and the North Vietnamese state as the Việt C�’ng (Vietnamese: Vietnamese for “People’s Army of Vietnam” (V.A.R.N). In the mid-1970s, the North Vietnam government declared an alliance with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to end the war. In the late 1970s, North and South Vietnamese forces began more conventional arms warfare.
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