Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam, in Vietnam cried the American War an aa, Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Mỹ, Kháng chiến chống Mỹ), cried the Seicont Indocheenae War an aa,^[36] wis a Cauld War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, an Cambodia frae December 1956^{[A 1]} tae the faw o Saigon on 30 Aprile 1975. This war follaed the First Indocheenae War an wis foucht atween North Vietnam—supportit bi Cheenae an ither communist allies—an the govrenment o Sooth Vietnam—supportit bi the Unitit States an ither anti-communist kintras.^[41] The Viet Cong (cried the Naitional Liberation Front, or NLF an aa), a lichtly airmed Sooth Vietnamese communist common front directit bi the North, foucht a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. The Fowk's Airmy o Vietnam (a.k.a. the North Vietnamese Airmy) engaged in a mair conventional war, at times committin lairge units intae battle. U.S. an Sooth Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority an owerwhelmin firepouer tae conduct search an destroy operations, involvin grund forces, artillery, an airstrikes.

Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam)
Pairt o the Indocheenae Wars an the Cauld War
File:VNWarMontage.png Clockwise, frae tap left: US combat operations in Ia Drang, ARVN Rangers defendin Saigon during the 1968 Tet Offensive, twa Douglas A-4C Skyhawks enroute for airstrikes against North Vietnam efter the Gulf o Tonkin incident, ARVN recaptur Quảng Trị during the 1972 Easter Offensive, ceevilians fleein the 1972 Battle o Quảng Trị, burial o 300 victims o the 1968 Huế Massacre.
Date December 1956 (1956-12)[A 1] – 30 Apryle 1975 (1975-04-30) (18 years, 4 months, 4 weeks and 1 day) Location Sooth Vietnam, North Vietnam, Cambodie, Laos, Thailand[1] Result Communist decisive victory U. S. military an political defeat Communist govrenments tak pouer in Sooth Vietnam, Cambodie an Laos Sooth Vietnam is annexed bi North Vietnam Territorial changes Unification o North an Sooth Vietnam intae the Socialist Republic o Vietnam.
Belligerents
Anti-communist forces:  Sooth Vietnam  Unitit States  Sooth Korea  Australie  Thailand  New Zealand Khmer Republic Kinrick o Laos Supportit bi: Philippines[2]  Taiwan[2]  Canadae[2]  Fraunce Wast Germany[2]  Unitit Kinrick [2]  Japan [2] Iran[2] Spain[3]	Communist forces:  North Vietnam Viet Cong Khmer Rouge Pathet Lao Supportit bi:  Cheenae  Soviet Union  Cuba[4][5]  North Korea  Czechoslovakie[6][7] Bulgarie[8]
Commanders an leaders
Ngô Đình Diệm Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Nguyen Cao Ky Cao Văn Viên Ngô Quang Trưởng John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon William Westmoreland Creighton Abrams Robert McNamara Park Chung-hee Chae Myung Shin Robert Menzies Harold Holt Keith Holyoake Thanom Kittikachorn ...an ithers	Ho Chi Minh Le Duan Võ Nguyên Giáp Van Tien Dung Le Trong Tan Phạm Văn Đồng Hoang Van Thai Tran Van Tra Nguyen Van Linh Nguyễn Hữu Thọ ...an ithers
Strenth
~1,830,000 (1968) Sooth Vietnam: 850,000 (1968) 1,500,000 (1974-5)[9] Unitit States: 536,100 Free Warld Militar Forces: 65,000[10][11] Sooth Korea: 50,000[12] Australie: 7,672 Thailand, Philippines: 10,450 New Zealand: 552	~781,000 North Vietnam: 287,465 (Januar 1968)[13] ~1,000,000 (1974-5)[14] Cheenae: 320,000[15] Soviet Union: 3,000 North Korea: 300–600
Casualties an losses
Sooth Vietnam 195,000–430,000 ceevilian dead[16][17] 220,357[18] – 313,000 militar dead[19] 1,170,000 woondit[citation needit] Unitit States 58,220 dead;[A 2] 303,644 woondit[A 2] Sooth Korea 5,099 dead; 10,962 woondit; 4 missin Australie 500 dead; 3,129 woondit [24] New Zealand 37 dead; 187 woondit [25] Thailand 351 dead;1,358 woondit[26] Philippines 9 dead[27] Tot deid: 480,538–807,564 Tot woondit: ~1,490,000+[citation needit]	North Vietnam & Viet Cong 50,000[28]-65,000[16] ceevilian dead 400,000[16]–1,100,000 militar dead or missin[29] 600,000+ woondit[30] P.R. Cheenae 4000+ dead[15] Soviet Union 16 dead[31] Tot dead: 455,462–1,170,462 Tot woondit: ~608,200
Aircraft losses Vietnamese ceevilian dead: 245,000–2,000,000[32] Cambodian Ceevil War dead: 200,000–300,000*[33][34][35] Laotian Ceevil War dead: 20,000–200,000* Tot ceevilian dead: 465,000–2,500,000** Tot dead: 1,102,000–3,886,026 * indicates approximations ** This figure includes aw o the dead frae the Laotian an Cambodian ceevil wars.

Annotations

1. Due tae the early presence o American truips in Vietnam the stairt date o the Vietnam War is a matter o debate. In 1998 efter a heich level review bi the Department o Defense (DoD) an through the efforts o Richard B. Fitzgibbon's faimily the stairt date o the Vietnam War accordin tae the US govrenment wis offeecially chynged tae 1 November 1955.^[37] U.S. govrenment reports currently cite 1 November 1955 as the commencement date o the "Vietnam Conflict", acause this wis the day when the U.S. Militar Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) in Indocheenae (deployed tae Sootheast Asie unner preses Truman) wis reorganized intae kintra-specific units an MAAG Vietnam wis established.^[38] Ither stairt dates include when Hanoi authorized Viet Cong forces in Sooth Vietnam tae begin a law-level insurgency in December 1956,^[39] whauras some view 26 September 1959 when the first battle occurred atween the Communist an Sooth Vietnamese army, as the stairt date.^[40]
2. The figurs o 58,220 an 303,644 for U.S. daiths an woondit come frae the Department o Defense Statistical Information Analysis Diveesion (SIAD), Defense Manpower Data Center, as well as frae a Depairtment o Veterans fact sheet datit Mey 2010^[20] the CRS (Congressional Research Service) Report for Congress, American War an Militar Operations Casualties: Leets an Statistics, datit 26 Februar 2010,^[21] an the beuk Crucible Vietnam: Memoir o an Infantry Lieutenant.^[22] Some ither soorces gie different figures (e.g. the 2005/2006 documentary Heart of Darkness: The Vietnam War Chronicles 1945–1975 citit elsewhaur in this airticle gies a figure o 58,159 U.S. daiths,^[18] an the 2007 beuk Vietnam Sons gies a figur o 58,226)^[23]