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Vietnam War

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Vietnam War conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. The war began soon after the Geneva Conference provisionally divided (1954) Vietnam at 17° N lat. into the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). It escalated from a Vietnamese civil war into a limited international conflict in which the United States was deeply involved, and did not end, despite peace agreements in 1973, until North Vietnam's successful offensiv... Read more

Vietnam War
A Dictionary of World History

Vietnam War (1964–75) The civil war in Vietnam after the commencement of large-scale US military involvement in 1964. Guerrilla activity in South Vietnam had become widespread by 1961, in which year President NGO DINH DIEM proclaimed a state of emergency. Continued communist activity ...

Vietnam War
World Encyclopedia

Vietnam War (1954–75) Conflict between US-backed South Vietnam and the Viet Cong , who had the support of communist North Vietnam. It followed the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu (1954) and the partition of Vietnam. In 1956, President Ngo Dinh Diem cancelled elections in ...

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	They charge war crimes: how John Kerry et al. have defamed the American serviceman in Vietnam.(History)(Column) National Review; 5/3/2004
	VIETNAM: The Necessary War.(Review) Washington Monthly; 11/1/1999
	BOOK REVIEW.(Vietnam: The Australian War)(Book review) National Observer - Australia and World Affairs; 6/22/2007

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