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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a war that most people in the United States did not approve of. It was a struggle between U.S. forces and South Vietnamese army against the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975.

From the 1880s until World War II, France governed Vietnam as part of French Indochina, it also included Cambodia and Laos. During the end of 1940, when Japanese troops had invaded and occupied French Indochina, Vietnamese nationalists seeing an opportunity to for resistance to French colonial rule had established the League for the Independence of Vietnam, or Viet Minh.

Later on, the U.S. began an alliance with the Viet Minh and forced the Japanese to surrender on September 2, 1945. During the time that the Japanese surrendered, a principal leader of the Viet Minh, Ho Chi Minh, declared the independence of Vietnam, which he called the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) but the French refused to acknowledge Vietnam’...

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