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Various names have been applied and have shifted over time, though Vietnam War is the most commonly used title in English. It has been called the Second Indochina War since it spread to Laos and Cambodia, [63] the Vietnam Conflict, [64] [65] and Nam (colloquially 'Nam). In Vietnam it is commonly known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (lit.
Dictionary of the Vietnam War. New York: Greenwood Press, Inc. Gareth Porter, Perils Of Dominance: Imbalance Of Power And The Road To War In Vietnam, University of California Press (June, 2005), hardcover, 403 pages, ISBN 0-520-23948-2; Robert Schulzinger. 1997. A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941–1975.
War in Southern Vietnam (1945–1946) Việt Minh. Bình Xuyên; Hoà Hảo; Cao Đài; Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng United Kingdom British India France French Indochina Japan. Defeat. Restoration of French rule in Indochina. Beginning of the First Indochina War. First Indochina War (1946–1954) Resistance war against France Democratic ...
Vietnam War: The First Battle of Saigon ends. 10–11 March: Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, the largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during the (at this time) secret war later known as the Laotian Civil War. 16 March: Vietnam War – My Lai massacre: American troops kill scores of civilians. The story ...
The Tây Sơn wars or Tây Sơn rebellion, often known as the Vietnamese civil war of 1771–1802, were a series of military conflicts that followed the Vietnamese peasant uprising at Tây Sơn (in Central Vietnam) that was led by three brothers Nguyễn Nhạc, Nguyễn Huệ, and Nguyễn Lữ.
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 ...
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One objective of the Communist Party of Vietnam was to reduce the population of Saigon, which had become swollen with an influx of people during the war and was now overcrowded with high unemployment. "Re-education classes" for former soldiers in the ARVN indicated that to regain full standing in society they would need to move from the city ...