Approx. 50 miles
War in RVN (South Vietnam) since 1955. War with North Vietnam since 1964.
Preserving the Republic of South Vietnam from being conquered by Communist North Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh was the president of Vietnam from 1945 until 1955, when Vietnam was divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh, known by the North Vietnamese people as "Uncle Ho" remained as president of North Vietnam until his death in 1969 while the U.S. "war in Vietnam" continued. He didn't live long enough to see his life-long dream come true with the defeat of South Vietnam and a unified country in 1975.
Vietnam was at war with France before the US intervened in the sixties. In fact, they defeated the French in 1956 and became independent, but divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The Vietnam war the US was in was the result of the North and their communist sympathizers in the South (the Viet Cong) trying to unite the country under communism. When the US pulled out in 1975, they were successful.
France owned Vietnam until they pulled out in the 1950's, and the US stepped in. After that, Vietnam was divided like Korea into Communist North and non-Communist South, but North Vietnam never accepted the division and always considered South Vietnam as the part of Vietnam occupied by the enemy.
In 1954. Vietnam was divided into the North (Communism) and South (Decmoracy). The North was supported the Chinese and Soviet Union. The South was backed by the U.S and its allies. During that time more than 1 milion North Vietnamese moved to the South. In 1975 the country reunited after the U.S Army had withdrawn out of the South and the North over ran the South government. Again, the Vietnamese escaped out of the communist rulers, this time was not 1 million, but more than 3 million of people. There is more than 1 million Vietnamese residing in the U.S, the rest of them are scattering all over the world.
Kansas is about 410 miles long north to south.
The Battle of Long Tần is arguably the most famous battle fought by the Australian Army during the Vietnam War. It was fought in a rubber plantation near the village of Long Tần, about 4 km north-east of Vung Tau, South Vietnam on August 18
As north Vietnam invaded South Vietnam, and the city of Saigon, so Kennedy sent troops to fight the Ho Chi min army. A growing body of evidence shows he planned to withdraw from Vietnam, realizing that the liberation movement in Vietnam was too strong and that U.S. interests would not be served by a long protracted and unwinnable war.
Kansas is about 410 miles long north to south.
648 miles long north to south
Vietnam is a medium sized country, it is only a couple hundred miles thin and over 1,000 miles long. But it is huge by population, with an impressive 91 million inhabitants.