and South Vietnamese forces ( Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)). The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) (also known as the North Vietnamese Army or NVA) engaged in more conventional warfare with U.S. Johnson ordered the deployment of combat units for the first time and increased troop levels to 184,000. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and gave President Lyndon B. Johnson broad authority to increase U.S.
destroyer clashed with North Vietnamese fast attack craft. In the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964, a U.S. involvement escalated under President John F. Kennedy through the MAAG program, from just under a thousand military advisors in 1959 to 23,000 in 1964. : 16 By 1963, the North Vietnamese had sent 40,000 soldiers to fight in the south. North Vietnam had also invaded Laos in 1958 in support of insurgents, establishing the Ho Chi Minh Trail to supply and reinforce the Việt Cộng. The Việt Cộng (VC), a South Vietnamese common front under the direction of North Vietnam, initiated a guerrilla war in the south. assumed financial and military support for the South Vietnamese state. After the French military withdrawal from Indochina in 1954, the U.S. The conflict emerged from the First Indochina War between the French colonial government and a left-wing revolutionary movement, the Viet Minh. The conflict also spilled over into neighboring states, exacerbating the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, which ended with all three countries becoming communist states by 1975. It lasted almost 20 years, with direct U.S. The war is widely considered to be a Cold War-era proxy war. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. However, before you do that please check and make sure that your questions or concerns haven't already been answered here.The Vietnam War ( Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about /r/WTF you can contact us by clicking the ' message the moderators' link, located on the lower right hand side of the page. This includes banning users for spamming, shitposting, or causing trouble. *The moderators of /r/WTF reserve the right to moderate posts and comments at their discretion, with regard to their perception of the suitability of said posts and comments for this subreddit. (Hover to view - mobile users tap here) Shout Outs: Novelty accounts and bots are not allowed. Your post/comment will be removed if it is racist, sexist, vitriolic, or overly crude. Gore is not allowed: All forms of gore, which includes depiction of serious physical injury involving blood, flesh, bone and internal organs.ġ1.This also includes screenshots of Reddit.This includes rage comics, Print comics, web comics, anime videos/gifs & Manga.This includes Captioned Images, Memes, & Demotivational Posters.If they haven't been marked, they will be removed (and not reinstated).To see the original post outlining this rule, click here. Neither posts with political implications, nor politics of any kind are allowed, especially US politics.This includes posts which may incite activism, outcry, outrage or involve "injustice".
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