The Americans used a process called Vietnamization to pull their troops out of Vietnam. South Vietnamese soldiers slowly took over the jobs of American soldiers in Vietnam in order to get troops out without causing much of a dramatic change.
There are 58,286 Americans named on the memorial honoring those who gave their lives in service to the American nation while fighting the war in Vietnam .
Air war North Vietnam. Ground war South Vietnam.
Part of the cold war.
Americans dropped bombs on Laos. No guerrilla warfare occurred here.
The NVA and the VC (North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong).
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NVA and VC.
The Americans lost the Vietnam War (1954-1975).
The Vietnam War divided Americans due to the different beliefs of the war's proponents and opponents. Many youth were vehemently opposed to the war and protested it openly. It was also the first war to be covered on TV, making the realities of war even easier for people to see.
Americans were drafted into the Vietnam War in 1965.
Vietnam was the first war in history that played out nightly on national television. The pictures and video from the war zone were shocking to many Americans and caused disillusionment for our role in the fighting.