We were losing. We're poor losers. Not too hard to figure out the rest.
It was both a civil war and a surrogate war with China and the USSR supporting North Vietnam and the US, South Korea, Australia, New Zeland, Thailand and the Phillipenes supporting South Vietnam.
South (RVN-Republic of South Vietnam)
When the American involvement in the Vietnam war ended in 1973, the United States military stopped drafting men into military service.
The Americans lost the Vietnam War (1954-1975).
Americans were drafted into the Vietnam War in 1965.
The Vietnam War was about stopping the flow of communism. It was NOT about economic trade.
The Korean War was a United Nations force supporting South Korea against a North Korean-Chinese invasion. The Vietnam War was a US-led coalition supporting South Vietnam against a North Vietnam invasion supported by China and Russia.
No americans were not happy
See website: Statistics About the Vietnam War.
the aussies were alies and fought in the Vietnam war with the Americans. (and of course the South Vietnamese - the Americans were paticipants on their side).
Some "construction workers (hard hats)" made the news during the war, supporting the fighting men in Vietnam; some muscle was used during this support.
Part of the cold war.