HIST 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eastern Edge, Ngo Dinh Diem, 17Th Parallel North
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Will go in depth regarding the vietnam wars. The vietnam war was a prolonged, expensive and divisive war that pitted north. Vietnam"s communist government against south vietnam and its main ally, the. The ongoing cold war between the us and the soviet union exacerbated the conflict. In the vietnam war more than 3 million people (including over 58,000. Americans) were killed, and more than half of those killed were vietnamese civilians. Opposition to the us war bitterly divided americans, even after president. Richard nixon directed u. s. forces to withdraw in 1973. The communist forces ended the war in 1975 by seizing control of south. Vietnam and the following year the country was unified as the socialist republic of vietnam. A nation in southeast asia on the eastern edge of the indochinese peninsula, Vietnam since the 19th century has been under the control of the french colonial rule. Japanese forces occupied vietnam during world war ii.
