South Vietnam are the non-communist side of Vietnam, which supported by the US vastly on war supplies, troops, and other thing to fights against the North Vietnam (the communist side).
North Vietnam (NVA) fighting South Vietnam (ARVN) with the US/allies helping out the south.
Great Britain stayed out of it. Australia and New Zealand fought in South Vietnam.
President Eisenhower sent US Military Advisers to South Vietnam in 1955.
South Vietnamese president.
1. From a guerrilla war to a conventional war. 2. From war in only South Vietnam to open warfare against North Vietnam.
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The north wanted the US out, the south wanted the US to stay.
They weren't.
1955.
An training team with the South Vietnam army, an infantry task force (brigade group), an air transport detachment and a destroyer.
The war took place in Vietnam because it was a civil war between north and south Vietnam. north Vietnam were communists and south Vietnam were capitalists. Australia's involvement was because they wanted the war on Vietnam soil not on Australian and America and the other countries like new zealand and south Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Spain and Taiwan and ofcourse china
Vietnam consisted of four wars: The Air War over North Vietnam; the Riverine War in South Vietnam; the Ground War in South Vietnam; and the Covert War in Laos & Cambodia. Nearly all of the 600 plus US POW's consisted of shot down pilots and aircrewmen. These men were shot down over North Vietnam while fighting the "air war."