The Vietnam War was an armed conflict fought from 1955 to 1975 in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars, a theater of the Cold War fought partly as a proxy war, and a civil war from the outset. Direct United States military involvement escalated from 1965 until American forces withdrew in 1973, and the fighting spread into the Laotian and Cambodian civil wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
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Founded in 1967 partly in response to the regional instability the Vietnam War was creating in Southeast Asia.
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When Did the Vietnam War Start? section
The Vietnam War and active U.S. involvement in the war began in 1954, though ongoing conflict in the region had stretched back several decades.
Geographic overview, opening paragraph
Vietnam, a nation in Southeast Asia on the eastern edge of the Indochinese peninsula, had been under French colonial rule since the 19th century.
Introduction
More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians.
Vietnam War: Event Type
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict fought from 1955 to 1975 in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies.
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Participant: Ho Chi Minh, Lead paragraph
the Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh, took control of North Vietnam
In Era: The Contemporary Period, lead paragraph and infobox, dates
The Vietnam War (, 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam)
In Group: Events of the Early Cold War and Decolonization, 1945 to 1969, Lead
The Vietnam War (c. 1955-30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies.
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