The dictionary defines two (or more) recognized nations fighting each other as a war. A battle is one engagement or series of engagements over the same objective (a hilltop or city for example).
And technically the American Civil War is considered the "War of the Rebellion" in the US Government archives. Neither the US Civil War nor the Vietnam War were declared wars.
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What was a major political consequence of the Vietnam War
Vietnam was a hot battle of the cold war.
What was a major political consequence of the Vietnam War
Vietnam was a "hot" battle of the "Cold War". The Korea was the first "hot" battle of the "Cold War."
Army General William Westmoreland, who was the supreme commmander of all U.S. forces in Vietnam, asked Johnson in 1965 for more troops. This widened the war and the first major battle in Vietnam was the Battle of Ia Drang in the Pleiku Province of South Vietnam.
the Vietnam War
Vietnam was a "hot" battle of the cold war.
The Cold War; Vietnam was a "hot" battle of the cold war.