What was the Vietnam War?
The Vietnam War was a military conflict fought primarily in Southern Vietnam in the years between 1959 and 1975. The Vietnam War was the source of many conflicting political and social opinions, especially in the years leading up to its conclusion. Militarily speaking, the Vietnam War was the result of North Vietnam and the Vietcong attempting to overthrow the South Vietnamese government. The Vietnam War was a continuation of the first Indochina war, which was fought when the Vietnamese sought independence from France after World War II. The country was split into two parts – northern and southern – in the Geneva Accords in 1954. In the Vietnam War, The Democratic Republic of North Vietnam and its allies, the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, fought against South Vietnam, whose allies would include the United States, Australia, South Korea, and New Zealand. The United States’ involvement in Vietnam began on 1 November 1955, when President Eisenhower deployed the Military
In 1954, the French colonial army in Vietnam was defeated by communist rebels. The country was divided into North and South Vietnam, and the US intervened to support an anticommunist government in the South. During the 1960s, troops were sent to fight the communists. They failed to defeat them, and Vietnam united under communist rule in 1975.
