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- A war that was officially against an aggressive communist regime (north Vietnam)
- Vietnam was previously colonized by France
- It is believed that the Quagmire theory might have continued the war for an unnecessary amount of years.
HIstorians blame the military for not adopting the appropriate

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- It started in 1954 when the French era ended. Vietnam was divided in a Northern and Southern part, where North Vietnam was a communist regime, and the South was an anti-communist regime fighting for democracy. The North was allied with China, The Soviet Union, and the South was allied with America. The Vietnam War is known to have been a very tough, extreme, and brutal war.

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- French conquered Vietnam in the late 1800´s
- Many theories on why the war kept on going
- Chemical weapons were used by the US to a large extent
- Split into two parts in 1954: North and South
- Communist (North)
- Anticommunist (South)
- South Vietnam was hopeless in its war efforts

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Ideologies: Communism vs liberalism

Proxy war
Vietnam divided in North (communist) and South (anti-communism)
French domination ended in 1954
The US "invaded" Vietnam in 1954 (during the cold war) to fight communism. They feared "the domino effect".
The North was supported by China

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- Lasted from 1954-1973
- It was a proxy war between the Soviet Union and the USA
- North Vietnam = Communist, South Vietnam = fought for democracy
- Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon were the presidents involved.
- It is hard for historians to agree on many of the aspects of US involvement in Vietnam

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- Vietnam was divided in North and South, North being communist and the South being anti-communist.
- USA wanted to eradicate communism and therefore helped South Vietnam by giving them ressources and sending troops.
- As they failed to do so, retracting their troops when they started to believe that they could not help get rid of communism in Vietnam, South Vietnam was completely taken over and there was no longer a division between the two states; Vietnam became one.
- It was a cruel and primitive war.
- The US never officially declared war.