Vietnam+War

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=__**Vietnam War**__= The Vietnam War went on from November 1, 1959 to April 30, 1975, and it was held in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. It is also known as the American War and the Second Indochina War. It lasted 18 years, 4 months, 4 weeks, and 1 day. The U.S government viewed American involved in the war as a way to prevent a Communist takeover of South Vietnam. France began its conquest of Indochina in the late 1850's and ended by 1893. The 1884 Treaty Of Hue formed the basis for French colonial rule in Vietnam for the next seven decades.

The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam, in Vietnam also known as the American War, Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Mỹ), also known as the Second Indochina War, was a Cold War-eraproxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries. The Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front, or NLF), a lightly armed South Vietnamese communist common front directed by the North, fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. The People's Army of Vietnam (a.k.a. the North Vietnamese Army) engaged in a more conventional war, at times committing large units into battle. As the war wore on, the part of the Viet Cong in the fighting decreased as the role of the NVA grew. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery, and airstrikes. In the course of the war, the U.S. conducted a large-scale strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam, and over time the North Vietnamese airspace became the most heavily defended airspace of any in the world.

= = = __Ngo Dinh Diem__ = **Birth: January 3, 1901, in Quang Binh Provence****, Vietnam.**
 * Pronunciation: Knowh Dinnh Dee-yem**
 * Death (Assassinated): November 2, 1963, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. **


 * Ngô Đình Diệm** was the first president of South Vietnam. In the wake of the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result of the 1954 Geneva Accords, Diệm led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam. Accruing considerable US support due to his staunch anti-communism, he announced victory after a fraudulent 1955 plebiscite in which he won 600,000 votes from an electorate of 450,000 and began building a right-wing dictatorship in South Vietnam.

A Roman Catholic, Diệm's policies toward the Republic's Montagnard natives and its Buddhist majority were met with protests,such as Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burning himself in 1963. 2 Amid religious protests, Diệm lost the backing of his US patrons and was assassinated, along with his brother, Ngô Đình Nhu by Nguyễn Văn Nhung, the aide of ARVN General Dương Văn Minh on 2 November 1963, during a coup d'état that deposed his government.



__** Ho Chi Minh **__


 * Real Name: Nguyen Sin Con**
 * Pronunciation: Ho Shee Minn**
 * Birth: May 19, 1890, Kim Lien, Vietnam**
 * Death: September 2, 1969, Hanoi, Vietnam (Age 79)**

**Ho Chi Minh**, born Nguyễn Sinh Côn, or Nguyễn Sinh Cung, also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành, Nguyen That Thanh and Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Minh was a Prime Minister (1945-1955) and he served as Vietnam's president in 1954.

Minh tried to present a program at the Peace Conference of Versailles in 1919 to American President Woodrow Wilson and after many attempts gained a meeting. His proposal called for basic freedoms, Vietnamese representation in the colonial government and greater equity. Wilson refused to listen and France retained control.

Pictures: =__BEFORE THE WAR: PREPARATION & STRIKES__=



=__**DURING THE WAR: BOMBINGS & SHOOTINGS**__=



=__**AFTER WAR: THE AFTERMATH & MEMORIAL WALL**__=



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Vietnamese National Anthem
Writer and Composer: Van Cao Year Written: 1944

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