communism which America feard would spread to them
Yes. It was the effort by North Vietnam military to subdue the government and people of the South to unify the country.
The VC lived in the south.
When the Vietnam War ended in 1975, North and South Vietnam became one communist nation called Vietnam.
It transformed the guerrilla war in South Vietnam into a conventional war in both South Vietnam and a war directly against North Vietnam.
The North won and the South lost in both undeclared wars; US Civil War & Vietnam.
Technically between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Actually between the US and North Vietnam.
North.
Overall it was a battle between South Vietnam and North Vietnam.
17th Parallel.
North Vietnam and South Vietnam. South Vietnam was a democratic republic and North Vietnam had a socialist government headed by a communist regime. North Vietnam was trying to defeat the democracy of South Vietnam and unify the country.
The Vietnam War or Second Indochinese War was a military engagement between North Vietnam and its allies (principally China and the USSR) and South Vietnam and its allies (principally the United States). From the South Vietnamese and US perspective, North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam in an attempt to annex it. From the North Vietnamese perspective, North Vietnam was liberating South Vietnam from illegal US occupation and manipulation.
The Vietnam War or Second Indochinese War was a military engagement between North Vietnam and its allies (principally China and the USSR) and South Vietnam and its allies (principally the United States). From the South Vietnamese and US perspective, North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam in an attempt to annex it. From the North Vietnamese perspective, North Vietnam was liberating South Vietnam from illegal US occupation and manipulation.
?........the Vietnam war was a war between north and south Vietnam and America. America was trying to defend south Vietnam from the north invading and controling their territory. so America was on the side with south Vietnam
North Vietnam defeated the South (or the North conquered the South).
30 April 1975.
There no longer is a North Vietnam, North Vietnam and South Vietnam were joined together after the Vietnam War.
South Vietnam's surrender to North Vietnam is what ended the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese had the goal of Vietnamese Unification and the surrender of South Vietnam in 1975 allowed them to achieve that objective.