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Q: Why did South Vietnamese fight the Vietnam War?
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Who did the Vietnamese fight in the Vietnam War?

Overall it was a battle between South Vietnam and North Vietnam.


Who did you fight during the Vietnam war?

I was not involved in the Vietnam war. That was between the American (and Australians and south Vietnamese) and the Vietcong.


How did the South Vietnam's surrender to North Vietnam develop 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.


Did Vietnamese have a place in the US?

Are you talking about a North Vietnamese or South Vietnamese EMBASSY? There would have been no such thing as a Vietnamese Embassy during the Vietnam War. There was no country called Vietnam during the Vietnam War.


Nixon's policy of withdrawing American troops from Vietnam while providing aid for the South Vietnamese to fight the war?

vietnamization


Who were American defending in the Vietnam war?

The South Vietnamese


What were the sides in vietnam?

The Vietnam War was fought in North and South Vietnam. The main belligerents were the South Vietnamese and the United States against the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong.


Where did they fight in Vietnam War?

Ground fighting occurred through out the Republic of South Vietnam. Unofficially, fighting occurred in Lao's and Cambodia along the South Vietnamese borders. Air Strikes occurred in North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.


How many casualties were upon south Vietnam have during the Vietnam war?

Historians estimate, that approximately 200,000 South Vietnamese servicemen of the Army Republic South Vietnam (ARVN), South Vietnamese Marines, Air Force & Navy were killed during the Vietnam War.


How did north Vietnam win the war?

The United States lost the will to continue fighting. The Vietnamese, who were defending their own country, were willing to fight forever. The North Vietnamese saw no distinction between North and South Vietnam. Ed Vietnam War Veteran 1968-69


How many Vietnamese went MIA?

Obtaining accurate figures for the South Vietnamese Government Forces (ARVN, South Vietnamese Marines, South Vietnamese Air Force, South Vietnamese Navy) is difficult, as SOUTH Vietnam has NOT EXISTED for over a quarter of a century. Northern casualties can be estimated. Southern casualties can be estimated. See sites: Vietnam War Casualties & Statistics about the Vietnam War.


Why so much opposition to the draft in Vietnam?

the Vietnam war was not an American war. we got in it to fight off communism. and the vietcong and north vietnamese worked together to fight us, and south vietnamese were hardly using their army to fight, they were letting us do all of it. and Americans didnt want to go die for a lost cause.