Both were undeclared wars.
Vietnam has never had a civil war. The closest you could get would be the Vietnam War, which was fought between the separate although related countries of North and South Vietnam (along with the allies of each side).
Vietnam War is a civil war because it was North Vietnam vs South Vietnam.
Most Historians like to use 1961 as the starting point for the war. The Vietnam War was NOT a civil war. A civil war is two armies from the same nation fighting itself. North Vietnam & South Vietnam were separate countries. They were never one country called Vietnam until 1975.
Most people know what the Vietnam War is; what is the American War?
because it was north Vietnam against south Vietnam
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McCain was a POW during the Vietnam war.
There was no "Vietnam Civil War." A civil war is a war in which ONE country is fighting against itself. N & S Vietnam were TWO separate countries from the very beginning (in 1954). They only became ONE country (one nation) when the North won the war in April of 1975. The normal starting date for the war, chosen by most historians, is the year 1961. Today, in the 21st century, if Vietnam fought amongst itself, it would be a civil war; as it is ONE nation.
Neither the Civil War nor the Vietnam War were declared wars.
It was not a civil war because it was mainly The North Vietnam Army (NVA) vs the United States and our allies like Australia.
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"They" were getting Vietnam mixed up with the American Civil War (US Civil War); being they were both wars between the "north and south." It was also one of MANY anti-war slogans during the war, "It's a civil war, the US doesn't have any business being there!" Well, those protesters were very wrong; it wasn't a civil war. A civil war is a war fought amongst itself and involving no foreign nation. In the US Civil War (officially designated the "War of the Rebellion" and also known as the "war between the states") Americans were killing Americans. Since US citizens were killling US citizens, this quite naturally made the US Civil War the most bloodiest war in US history. The Viet War on the other hand was a nation called NORTH Vietnam fighting a nation called SOUTH Vietnam. That's not a civil war. It's a traditional war of one country fighting another; it just so happend they had the same last name...Vietnam.