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Various names have been applied and have shifted over time, though Vietnam War is the most commonly used title in English. It has been called the Second Indochina War since it spread to Laos and Cambodia, [61] the Vietnam Conflict, [62] [63] and Nam (colloquially 'Nam). In Vietnam it is commonly known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (lit.
The Apple TV+ docuseries doesn't feature pundits or historians as talking heads, focusing instead on the people on the ground, from soldiers to nurses to Vietnamese civilians.
A major factor that led President Lyndon B. Johnson to intervene into Vietnam militarily was the fear of communism due to Cold War tensions with communist countries such as China and the Soviet Union. South Vietnam was very important to the U.S. in Asia with it being perceived as a western democratic state.
During the Cold War, the Indochina wars (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Đông Dương) were a series of wars which were waged in Indochina from 1946 to 1991, by communist forces (mainly ones led by Vietnamese communists) against the opponents (mainly the Vietnamese capitalists, Trotskyists, the State of Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam, the French, American, Laotian royalist, Cambodian and Chinese ...
March 29 was chosen as Vietnam Veterans Day because on that day in 1973, the last U.S. combat troops departed South Vietnam following a lengthy and costly war that made many Americans reconsider ...
Protesters clash during a demonstration against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War held in front of the White House in Washington on May 11, 1970 and following a shooting at Kent ...
One objective of the Communist Party of Vietnam was to reduce the population of Saigon, which had become swollen with an influx of people during the war and was now overcrowded with high unemployment. "Re-education classes" for former soldiers in the ARVN indicated that to regain full standing in society they would need to move from the city ...
Vietnamese people scale the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, just before the end of the Vietnam War on April 29, 1975. (Neal Ulevich / Associated Press)