Vietnam
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Vietnam is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.
The Vietnamese became independent from Imperial China in 938 AD, following the resounding Vietnamese victory in the Battle of Bạch Đằng River. Successive Vietnamese royal dynasties flourished as the nation expanded geographically and politically into Southeast Asia, until the Indochina Peninsula was colonized by the French in the mid-19th century. Following a Japanese occupation in the 1940s, the Vietnamese fought French rule in the First Indochina War, eventually expelling the French in 1954. Thereafter, Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states, North and South Vietnam. Conflict between the two sides intensified, with heavy foreign intervention, during the Vietnam War, which ended with a North Vietnamese victory in 1975.
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was fought from 1957 to 1975 between communist forces and an array of Western and pro-Western forces, most importantly the United States. Casualties were around 1.5 million Vietnamese killed, 58,226 Americans killed
See also
- 1960s counterculture and the Vietnam War draft.
- Street Execution of a Vietcong Prisoner, Saigon, Feb. 1, 1968 (1968) - Eddie Adams
In film
- Far From Vietnam, 1965, France.
