Soviets supplied the MiG17 & MiG21s; Red China supplied MiG19 jet fighter planes. Both countries trained North Vietnamese MiG pilots in their respective countries.
The U.S. mainly supported the South but Australia and some neutral countries supported the South as well. The Soviet Union and China mainly supported the North.
this is a complex question. i supported the vietnamese with the possibility of losing my life. we defeated the north vietnamese army in 1968 and could have walked into hanoi and accepted the keys. they don't tell you this in political terms. the us army never gets beat. the politicians get beat. or. the politicians tie the armys hands so they cannot be effective. so i say to anyone who can read these words never blame the army. the army will win. In the Vietnam war: * China rand Russia (and their allies) supported the North Vietnamese * The United States of America succeeded the French in supporting the South Vietnamese
During the Vietnam War, there were many people who lived in South Vietnam who supported and fought for the North Vietnamese. They were known as the Viet Cong.
After the North conquered the South, Vietnamese people who had supported and worked with the United States were threatened by the new government and fled to the United States.
Acceptable, until after Nixon's Cambodian & Laos invasions ('70 & '71) then the financial support was cut.
The Vietcong were South Vietnamese and Cambodians in a political organization supported by North Vietnam to carry out guerrilla attacks against South Vietnam it support of the northern military.
The Soviet Union supported Ho Chi Minh in his push for Vietnamese independence.
Vietnamese Communists (Viet Cong) vs. the South Vietnamese Army and the US. Many other countries supported but the main ones are above
North Vietnamese đồng ended in 1978.
North Vietnamese đồng was created in 1946.
North Vietnamese are inhabitants of North Vietnam, while Vietcong are Vietnamese warriors during the Viet war.
There were three names by which South Vietnamese supporters of the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War were known. One was Viet Cong. The phrase was a shortened form of the Vietnamese "Viet Nam Cong San," for Vietnamese Communist. It was first used by Ngo Dinh Diem [January 3, 1901-November 2, 1963], First President of the Republic of [South] Vietnam, to describe the opponents to his government and the supporters of the Democratic Republic of [North] Vietnam. President Diem held office from October 26, 1955, until the overthrow of his government and his assassination. But the South Vietnamese supporters didn't identify themselves as Viet Cong. Instead, they preferred recognition of their membership in, or support for, the pro-North guerrilla army and political group. For pro-Northerners joined, or supported, the People's Liberation Armed Forces aka PLAF. Or they joined, or supported, the National Front for the Liberation of Southern Vietnam aka National Liberation Front and NLF.