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This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (November 2024) Vietnam War Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War in Asia Clockwise from top left: US Huey helicopters inserting South Vietnamese ARVN troops, 1970 North Vietnamese PAVN ...
The forests of Vietnam especially were very vulnerable to a chemical such as Agent Orange, and by the end of the 9 year campaign, 11 million gallons of Agent Orange had been dropped on the region including Laos, Cambodia, and mostly Vietnam. These herbicides not only affected the landscape of Vietnam, but had disastrous effects on the human body.
The following is a list of ecoregions in Vietnam defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). ... Ecoregions are sorted by biome. [1] Tropical and subtropical ...
Then the Vietnam war ended up being pretty much a disaster,” Wawro said. Along with the political climate. “We got into it by presidents who were trying to posture as being tough on communism.
The Northern Vietnam lowland rain forests ecoregion (WWF ID: IM0141) covers the central-eastern coast of Vietnam from the Red River delta in the north to Tam Kỳ in the center of the country and neighboring adjacent parts of Laos. The region is one of the wet evergreen forests, with rain over 50 mm in every month.
As of 2005, 12,931,000 hectares (the equivalent of 39.7% of Vietnam's land cover) was forested, although only 85,000 hectares (0.7% of the land cover) was primary forest, the most biodiverse form of forest. Vietnam’s forest recovery is a notable success story, with forest cover increasing in recent decades after a period of extreme deforestation.
First war (351–359) Jiaozhou under Jin dynasty: Lâm Ấp (Linyi) Victory for Jin: Second war (399) Third war (413–415) Liu Song-Lâm Ấp War (445–446) Jiaozhou under Liu Song dynasty: Lâm Ấp (Linyi) Victory for Liu Song. Sack of Kandarapura, capital city of Lâm Ấp, by the Liu Song. Lý Trường Nhân's rebellion (468)
The Japanese occupied Vietnam during World War II but allowed the French to remain and exert some influence. At the war's end in August 1945, a power vacuum was created in Vietnam. Capitalizing on this, the Việt Minh launched the "August Revolution" across the country to seize government offices.