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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
Emperor of Vietnam, Duy Tân in 1916, emperor at the outbreak of the "Great War". Taking advantage of France busying in the conflict, he attempted to join an anti-French rebellion in 1916 but was captured and deposed. At the onset of World War I, Vietnam, nominally under the Nguyễn dynasty, was under French protectorate and part of French ...
South Vietnam and allies Opponents Result Leader; Partisan conflicts in South Vietnam (1955) Pro-Ngô Đình Diệm groups National Revolutionary Committee; Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party Vietnamese National Army; Supported by: United States. Pro-Bảo Đại groups National All-Power United Front. Bình Xuyên; Hoà Hảo; Cao Đài ...
Free World Military Forces headquarters in Saigon, South Vietnam, 1971. 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).
The United States countered with what became known as the "American Plan", with the support of South Vietnam and the United Kingdom. [35] It provided for unification elections under the supervision of the United Nations, but was rejected by the Soviet delegation and North Vietnamese. [35]
The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam, and alternatively internationally as the French-Indochina War) was fought between France and Việt Minh (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), and their respective allies, from 19 December 1946 until 21 July 1954. [21]
The Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as "Nationalist China" or "Taiwan", supported South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) during the Vietnam War.Both were anti-communist Asian nations fighting against rival communist regimes, the People's Republic of China and North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam).
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 and a major proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US.