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Us Involvement In The Vietnam War

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The Vietnam War started when the French was defeated by Vietnamese of their battle. The defeat of the French led in Vietnams independence and that divided Vietnam into two as North, being the communist group and the South as an anti-communist group. The Communist leader, Viet Cong, being backed up by Soviet Union and China, wanted to unify the entire country to become all communist. But the South, didn’t want to so the battle between North and South began at 1954. The United States supported South Vietnam to fight the North for many years. By 1973, the U.S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam and in 1975, North Vietnam invaded South that resulted Vietnam to be reunited.
It was a violent war that killed numerous people both from US and Vietnam
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