The Vietnam War was part of the cold war. The cold war was between governments (Nations/Countries).
The Republic of SOUTH Vietnam was a free society; NORTH Vietnam was communist based.
They wanted it end.
The "silent majority" were a group of American people that were supposed to support the USA in the Vietnam War, as compared to a large amount of vocal demonstrators that were protesting the war. After many years of fighting in Vietnam and seeing no end in sight, the vast majority of Americans wanted it to end, and for the the USA to leave the quagmire. Which they did in 1973, and South Vietnam fell to the communists in 1975.
By 1972.
France.
US POWs still surviving in North Vietnam were released to the US in 1973; the vast majority of them were US Airmen who had been shot down during the air war over North Vietnam.
They violated rule number 1: Underestimating the enemy
They are still there they were the victors in the war with the US and now rule Vietnam.
Was a Cold War conflict. A protracted military conflict (1954-1975) between South Vietnam, supported by United States forces, and Communist North Vietnam. The war resulted in a North Vietnamese victory and unification of Vietnam under Communist rule.
The Vietnam War officially ended on April 30, 1975. This was the day when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, effectively marking the end of the war and the reunification of Vietnam under communist rule.
The French Indochina War 1946-1954 (aka 1st Indochina War).
The Cold War in which Communist countries and sympathisers tried to impose their ideas and rule on those opposed to it.