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The Vietnam War involved many countries across the world. North Vietnam received support from the Eastern Bloc, while South Vietnam was generally supported by nations of the Western Bloc. Ho Chi Minh from the Việt Minh independence movement and Việt Cộng with East German sailors in Stralsund harbour, 1957
The year was the most expensive in the Vietnam War with America spending US$77.4 billion (US$ 678 billion in 2025) on the war. The year also became the deadliest of the Vietnam War for America and its allies with 27,915 ARVN soldiers killed and the Americans suffering 16,592 killed compared to around two hundred thousand PAVN/VC killed.
U.S. Army soldiers burning a Viet Cong base camp during the Vietnam War, 1968. The Gulf of Tonkin incident started American involvement in the Second Indochina War, known in the Western world as the "Vietnam War". For 11 years, the U.S., South Vietnam, and their allies fought North Vietnam, the Viet Cong, and their allies.
Free World Military Assistance Forces (FWMAF also known as Free World Military Forces or FWMF) was the group of allied nations who sent troops to fight in the Vietnam War under the FWMF banner, assisting South Vietnam against North Vietnam and the Viet Cong (VC). Together with South Vietnamese, the FWMF were often referred to as the Allies.
World War II (Anti-Japanese Campaign 1944–1945) First Indochina War (Against France, 1946–1954) Second Indochina War (Vietnam War) (Against the United States and South Vietnamese forces, 1954–1975) Cambodian–Vietnamese War (Against the Khmer Rouge, 1977–1989) Sino-Vietnamese War (Against China, 1979)
The first U.S. prisoners of war were released by North Vietnam on February 11, and all U.S. military personnel were to leave South Vietnam by March 29. As an inducement for Thieu's government to sign the agreement, Nixon had promised that the U.S. would provide financial and limited military support (in the form of air strikes) so that the ...
The following is a list of units of the United States Army during the Vietnam War. Active Duty Divisions and Brigades in Theater. AirMobile Divisions 1st Cavalry ...
Military history of Laos during the Vietnam War (1 C, 5 P) N. ... Pages in category "Vietnam War by country" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.