Sep 13, 2017 · The following Vietnam War timeline is a guide to the complex political and military issues involved in a war that would ultimately claim millions of lives. Vietnam Background: Uneasy French Rule

Sep 11, 2017 · Aug. 2-4, 1964: Two supposed incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin lead Johnson to seek congressional approval for direct U.S. involvement in Vietnam. March …

May 31, 2022 · The Vietnam War pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States. The war ended when U.S. forces withdrew in 1973 and Vietnam unified under Communist ...

Vietnam War, (1954–75), a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. Called the “American War” in Vietnam (or, in full, the “War Against the Americans to Save the Nation”), the war was also part of a larger regional ...

Mar 29, 2020 · The Vietnam War was one of several conflicts that began with the struggle over Indochina to overthrow the French colonial forces. Known as the Second Indochina War, the Vietnam War officially began when the U.S. got involved in 1954. The first American fatality was in 1956 when an off-duty airman was shot by a colleague for talking to some ...

Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War began with a small commitment of 30 military advisors in 1962, and increased over the following decade to a peak of 7,672 Australian personnel following the Menzies Government's April 1965 decision to upgrade its military commitment to South Vietnam's security. By the time the last Australian personnel were withdrawn in 1972, the …

Sep 06, 2021 · The Vietnam War was the struggle between forces attempting to create a communist government and the U.S. attempting to prevent the spread of communism. ... With help from the United States, South Vietnam carried out the election only in South Vietnam rather than countrywide. ... Timeline of the Vietnam War (Second Indochina War) Causes of the ...

May 06, 2014 · Last but not least, the undeclared war cost the United States some 58,000 lives, impeded many welfare programs and brought down its economy to the crisis of the 1970s – just to name a few. Those severe consequences put a big question mark over American benefits of its deep involvement in Vietnam.

Protests 1945. The first protests against U.S. involvement in Vietnam were in 1945, when United States Merchant Marine sailors condemned the U.S. government for the use of U.S. merchant ships to transport European troops to "subjugate the native population" of Vietnam.; 1963. May. Anti-Vietnam war protests in England and Australia.; September 21. War Resisters League …

Oct 11, 2016 · The Vietnam War lasted from 1 November 1955 to 30 April 1975, officially between North Vietnam (North Vietnam) and South Vietnam (South Vietnam). In reality, it was an international war between the French at first and then the United States and its allies on the side of South Vietnam, and the Communist Bloc on the side of North Vietnam