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The 1945–1946 War in Vietnam, codenamed Operation Masterdom [3] by the British, and also known as the Southern Resistance War (Vietnamese: Nam Bộ kháng chiến) [4] [5] by the Vietnamese, was a post–World War II armed conflict involving a largely British-Indian and French task force and Japanese troops from the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, versus the Vietnamese communist movement ...
North and South Vietnam therefore remained divided until the Vietnam War ended with the Fall of Saigon in 1975. After 1976, the newly reunified Vietnam faced many difficulties including internal repression and isolation from the international community due to the Cold War , Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and an American economic embargo. [ 1 ]
West Germany supported the US in the Vietnam War, but didn't send troops. In 1967, the German chemical and pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim supplied 720 tons of trichlorophenolate lye to a subsidiary of Dow Chemical in New Zealand, which the company used to produce Agent Orange for the Vietnam War. [7]
In August 2023, it was announced that Vietnam would add Israel to its electronic visa waiver program, and that direct flights between the two countries were supposed to begin for the first time in October 2023. [30] [31] However, the plan was halt indefinitely due to Israel–Hamas war.
During the war, the Soviets sent North Vietnam annual arms shipments worth $450 million. [9]: 364–371 From July 1965 to the end of 1974, fighting in Vietnam was observed by some 6,500 officers and generals, as well as more than 4,500 soldiers and sergeants of the Soviet Armed Forces. In addition, Soviet military schools and academies began ...
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 ...
Both North and South Vietnam struggled to gain control of more territory during the "land grab." Within two weeks South Vietnam had regained control of all but 23 of the villages. [22]: 4 [24]: 38 PAVN rockets damaged two United States Marine Corps (USMC) F-4s as they rearmed at Da Nang Air Base. [26]: 216 26–31 January
After the defeat of the French Union in the First Indochina War that began in 1946, Vietnam gained independence in the 1954 Geneva Conference but was divided into two parts at the 17th parallel: the Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh, took control of North Vietnam, while the US assumed financial and military support for South Vietnam, led by Ngo ...