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Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year. The war killed an estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians, 1.1 million North Vietnamese troops and 200,000 South Vietnamese troops.

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1. The Collapse of French Indochina and Rise of Ho Chi Minh

2. Battle of Dien Bien Phu- the decisive engagement in the First Indochina War (1946- 1954)

3. The 1954 Geneva Accords Divide Vietnam- As part of the agreement, the French agreed to withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam. Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel.

4. The Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem

5.Gulf of Tonkin Incident- international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. (1964)

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As the original communist state, the Soviet Union aided North Vietnam, with increasing support in the late 1960s. While the U.S.S.R. supplied some troops, their biggest contribution was in weaponry.

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The United States got involved to prevent South Vietnam from falling into communist hands. At first, the U.S. operated behind the scenes, but after 1964, sent combat troops and became more deeply mired in the war. Following France's defeat in the First Indochina War, an international agreement divided Vietnam in two.

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which had defeated the French colonial administration of Vietnam in 1954, to unify the entire country under a single communist regime modeled after those of the Soviet Union and China.

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the tension between communist and democratic forms of government strained relations between the Soviet Union and the United States and provided the ideological underpinnings of the Cold War.

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proxy war- war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.

Surrogate war- in whole or in part, to human and/or technological substitutes in order to minimize the costs of war.

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The Cold War was not a traditional war. It was "cold" because the U.S. and the Soviet Union did not fight each other directly.

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Geneva Conference to resolve problems in Asia begins. (2022). Retrieved 21 April 2022, from https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/geneva-conference-begins#:~:text=In%20July%201954%2C%20the%20Geneva,president%20and%20reunite%20the%20country.