Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam, in Vietnam cried the American War an aa, Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Mỹ, Kháng chiến chống Mỹ), cried the Seicont Indocheenae War an aa, wis a Cauld War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, an Cambodia frae December 1956 tae the faw o Saigon on 30 Aprile 1975.
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This war follaed the First Indocheenae War an wis foucht atween North Vietnam—supportit bi Cheenae an ither communist allies—an the govrenment o Sooth Vietnam—supportit bi the Unitit States an ither anti-communist kintras. The Viet Cong (cried the Naitional Liberation Front, or NLF an aa), a lichtly airmed Sooth Vietnamese communist common front directit bi the North, foucht a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. The Fowk's Airmy o Vietnam (a.k.a. the North Vietnamese Airmy) engaged in a mair conventional war, at times committin lairge units intae battle. U.S. an Sooth Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority an owerwhelmin firepouer tae conduct search an destroy operations, involvin grund forces, artillery, an airstrikes.
| Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam) | |||||||||
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| Pairt o the Indocheenae Wars an the Cauld War | |||||||||
| File:VNWarMontage.png Clockwise, frae tap left: US combat operations in Ia Drang, ARVN Rangers defendin Saigon during the 1968 Tet Offensive, twa Douglas A-4C Skyhawks enroute for airstrikes against North Vietnam efter the Gulf o Tonkin incident, ARVN recaptur Quảng Trị during the 1972 Easter Offensive, ceevilians fleein the 1972 Battle o Quảng Trị, burial o 300 victims o the 1968 Huế Massacre. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Anti-communist forces: Supportit bi:  Spain | Communist forces: Supportit bi:  Bulgarie | ||||||||
| Commanders an leaders | |||||||||
 Ngô Đình Diệm Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Nguyen Cao Ky Cao Văn Viên Ngô Quang Trưởng John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon William Westmoreland Creighton Abrams Robert McNamara Park Chung-hee Chae Myung Shin Robert Menzies Harold Holt Keith Holyoake  Thanom Kittikachorn...an ithers |  Ho Chi Minh Le Duan Võ Nguyên Giáp Van Tien Dung Le Trong Tan Phạm Văn Đồng  Hoang Van Thai Tran Van Tra Nguyen Van Linh Nguyễn Hữu Thọ ...an ithers | ||||||||
| Strenth | |||||||||
| ~1,830,000 (1968) | ~781,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties an losses | |||||||||
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Tot woondit: ~1,490,000+[citation needit] |
Tot woondit: ~608,200 | ||||||||
| Aircraft losses * indicates approximations ** This figure includes aw o the dead frae the Laotian an Cambodian ceevil wars. | |||||||||
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