Vietnam Name of operations and clashes in the military from 1955 to 1975 between forces of North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, known as the "Viet Cong" On the one hand, and the forces of South Vietnam and its allies especially the United States of America on the other hand took place.

Of America Dwight Eisenhower American participation in the war as a way to prevent and control the spread of communism in South Vietnam was a follower of the domino theory. According to the principle of dominoes falling if it was a Communist zone surrounding areas also are looking down on mess (after the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos ...). The North Vietnamese to unite under the rule of the communist fight, they