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The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 [A 1 ... [A 1] – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, ... In April 1960, North Vietnam imposed universal military ...
1975 Araguaia Guerrilla War: Brazilian military government: Communist Party of Brazil: 1967 1975 Cambodian Civil War. Part of the Vietnam War. National United Front of Kampuchea Khmer Rouge North Vietnam Viet Cong Khmer Republic United States South Vietnam: 1967 1967 Machurucuto raid Venezuela Cuba: 1967 Ongoing Naxalite–Maoist insurgency India
A 1975 US Senate subcommittee estimated around 1.4 million civilian casualties in South Vietnam because of the war, including 415,000 deaths. An estimate by the Department of Defense after the war gave a figure of 1.2 million civilian casualties, including 195,000 deaths. [ 1 ]
1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched the Spring Offensive in March; the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was quickly defeated. The North Vietnamese captured Saigon on April 30, accepting the surrender of South Vietnam. In the final days of the war, the ...
In 1960, the oft-expressed optimism of the United States and the Government of South Vietnam that the Viet Cong (VC) were nearly defeated proved mistaken. Instead the VC became a growing threat and security forces attempted to cope with VC attacks, assassinations of local officials, and efforts to control villages and rural areas.
Vietnam War: 1964–1975: 1980–1991 ... December 20, 1960 — The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, better known as the Viet Cong (VC) is founded.
By 1975, they had fully transformed from the strategy of mobile light-infantry and using the people's war concept used against the United States. [10] A MiG-21 of the Vietnam People's Air Force, which 13 out of 19 of the VPAF's top fighter aces had flown in most of the successful interception missions against USAF and USN aircraft. [12]
April 29, 1975 Following the end of World War II in Asia, France attempted to regain control of Vietnam, as part of French Indochina , which it had lost to Japan in 1941. At the conclusion of the First Indochina War , the country was split into two parts, the North and the South .