Vietnam war

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Vietnam War
(Chiến tranh Việt Nam)
Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War

Clockwise, from top left: US combat operations in Ia Drang, ARVN Rangers defending Saigon during the 1968 Tet Offensive, two Douglas A-4C Skyhawks enroute for airstrikes against North Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, ARVN recapture Quảng Trị during the 1972 Easter Offensive, civilians fleeing the 1972 Battle of Quảng Trị, burial of 300 victims of the 1968 Huế Massacre.
Date 1 November 1955[A 1] – 30 April 1975
(19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)
Location South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos
Result North Vietnamese victory
Withdrawal of American-led anti communist forces
Communist governments take power in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
South Vietnam is annexed by North Vietnam
Territorial
changes Reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Belligerents
Anti-communist forces: South Vietnam United States South Korea Australia Thailand New Zealand Khmer Republic Kingdom of Laos
Supported by: Philippines Taiwan Japan
Communist forces: North Vietnam Viet Cong Khmer Rouge Pathet Lao
Supported by: China Soviet Union Cuba[1][2] North Korea Czechoslovakia[3][4] Bulgaria[5]
Commanders and leaders Ngô Đình Diệm Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Cao Văn Viên Ngô Quang Trưởng John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon William Westmoreland Creighton Abrams Robert McNamara Park Chung-hee Chae Myung-shin Robert Menzies Harold Holt Keith Holyoake Thanom Kittikachorn
...and others Ho Chi Minh Lê Duẩn Võ Nguyên Giáp Văn Tiến Dũng Lê Trọng Tấn Phạm Văn Đồng Hoàng Văn Thái Trần Văn Trà Nguyễn Văn Linh Nguyễn Hữu Thọ
...and others
Strength
~1,830,000 (1968) South Vietnam: 850,000 (1968)
1,500,000 (1974–5)[6] United States: 536,100 (1968)
Free World Military Forces: 65,000[7][8]
South

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