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Introduction
This was a military struggle fought in Vietnam from the year 1959 all the way to 1975. This war involved the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front against the United States and the South Vietnamese army. Now from 1946 to 1954 the Vietnamese had struggled for their independence from France during the First Indochina War. At the end of this war the country was temporarily divided into two parts the North and South. North Vietnam came under the control of the Vietnamese Communists who had opposed France and who aimed for a unified Vietnam under Communist rule. ... The United States became involved because they didn’t want communism to spread throughout southeast Asia and they believed that if Vietnam was taken over by the north that it would become a communist nation and it would spread to the surrounding nations. ... However, the United States failed to achieve its goal, and in 1975 Vietnam was reunified under Communist control; in 1976 it officially became the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. ... 5 to 2 million Lao and Cambodians who were drawn into the war. ... So the war began.
Chronological review of the war
In 1940 Japanese troops invaded and occupied French Indochina. In December of that year, Vietnamese nationalists established the League for the Independence of Vietnam, or Viet Minh, seeing the turmoil of the war as an opportunity for resistance to French colonial rule.
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