Vietnam

Laos, Cambodia, North and South Vietnam (now called Vietnam).

In the common neighborhood in America of any state or US territory, during the 1960's; if the neighborhood newspaper boy was drafted (or enlisted) and was killed in Vietnam, the whole neighborhood was deeply upset. And they probably didn't even know him or his name. They simply heard he was "the newspaper boy." In the United States, every mother & every father, every brother and sister, uncle & aunt, was affected if there was a casualty. Only the children were NOT to be told. Grown ups ceased talking about Vietnam (or the casualty) when a child was present; or else THAT PERSON would have to explain to THAT CHILD that the child's father, brother, cousin, uncle, or neighborhood newspaper boy was now dead. No one wanted that privilege! While at work, discussion's about the war had to be hushed. Some employee might have had a casualty within the family. Feelings could get hurt, anger might surface, fist fights might (and did occur). Vietnam was to be left OUT OF THE WORK PLACE! Most commonly, everyone had someone in the military service, so discussing a casualty only worried the individual hearing the discussion. There were other topics to talk about, more pleasent things...the word was out...TALK BASEBALL!

The TET offensive commenced on 31 Jan 1968.

Ho Chi Minh Was a good leader because At the Party Congress at Tours on Christmas Day, 1920, Ho Chi Minh sided with the Communist wing of the party since the Communists advocated immediate independence for all colonial areas. Vietnamese did not have to be Communist to join the fight against the French, and the ranks of the Viet Minh swelled with patriotic volunteers. He had certainly led his native Communist Party through almost 40 years of success, creating a state where none had existed before and devising a Communist government to run it. As a young Communist functionary, he avoided Stalin's great purges of the 1920s and 30s. As a mature Communist leader, he steered a middle course between the Russians and Chinese in their great schism, offending neither and retaining the support of both. In sum, Ho Chi Minh was that great contradiction: a dedicated Communist who was also a fervent nationalist. Throughout his life he never lost sight of his goal of an independent Vietnamese state, and even as a Communist leader he pursued an essentially Vietnamese course, even when pure Communist theory might have dictated other choices.

LBJ ordered retaliatory bombing of the North Vietnamese Navy's torpedo boat docking facilities in August 1964 following the Tonkin Gulf incidents 02/04 August 1964.

Japan invaded all countries within 360 degree's of them. From Alaska, towards Australia (stopped by the Battle of the Coral Sea), and west of them in China. Russia (Soviet Union) was also fought at the Battle of Nomonhan in 1939. This battle, known as the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol by the Russians, is what put a stop to Japanese interests in the Soviet Union.

Yes, and Asia and Europe are on the same continent. If no guard stops you, you could ride a bicycle from Vietnam to France or Germany. There's no ocean to stop you.

So...the proper name for the continent is Eurasia.

Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) .

1941. The Japanese aircraft that bombed, torpedo'd, and sank the British battleship Prince of Wales and the British battlecruiser Repulse, were Japanese ARMY twin engine planes, that took off from what later became Vietnam on 10 December 1941.

During the war, it was the French "P" (Piasters).

Usually 7-10 days.

NVA tanks were entering the city. By contrast, when US troops were active in South Vietnam, NVA tanks wouldn't be in the whole country of South Vietnam (very rarely)...let alone the capital city of Saigon!

Unless a battle was extraordinary like Hamburger Hill, Dak To, or the Ia Drang (to name a few examples); or even air battles like Linebacker and Linebacker II (which took up miles of airspace), then the average Viet War battlefield, which was a platoon sized engagement, covered roughly one football field (a hundred yards).

Note: Even though battalions (600-900 men) and companies (roughly 100 to 190 men) could be engaged, more often than not the fight degenerated into a platoon sized fight (a pocket), with everybody jockying for a position to see and shoot. Which is why sometimes when you watch actual combat footage you see the men "pointing with their hands and arms" alot. They're pointing to where they believe the enemy is firing from and want more firepower placed into that particular position. They're often yelling, "...right there! They're right there! Fire the 60 into that spot right there!"

Vietnamese were divided into two (or more) groups during the war. The North Vietnamese, regular army, used some of the same conventional weapons (ships, machine guns, tanks, planes, long range guns) as did the US... only they had very much fewer of them. The Viet Cong (VC), which were the Communist rebels which eventually took over South Vietnam, used more small scale weapons and weapons of secrecy, hidden bombs, more small arms fire and the like, as their number one weapon was secrecy and moving around quietly, while hiding in the bush often, to catch their enemy...the US and South Vietnamese troops off guard.

No, Vietnam is a sovereign nation. From 111 BCE until 39 AD, China ruled Vietnam. Four years later, China reconquered Vietnam and ruled for another 5 centuries before being driven out. Then from 602-905 AD China ruled Vietnam again. Then there was the short lived "Fourth Chinese domination" that lasted for 20 years in the 15th century. China invaded Vietnam for about 4 weeks in 1979, but pulled out with no clear winner (The Vietcong managed to hold onto Cambodia while China successfully destroyed Vietnam's offensive capabilities in the North).

tl;dr: Vietnam is not currently part of China, but has been in the past.

Also, guys? Stop making inaccurate, poorly spelled edits in order to take potshots at China. Just answer the question.

In Vietnam it can reach up to 40 degrees Celsius.

My guess is it is when the big helicopter swoops down with intense chopper noise and rescues the people and flies 'em away. I say that because I saw the show maybe 15 or 20 years ago on Broadway and for the life of me, that's all I remember of it now.

Vietnam is the country (formerly part of French Indochina). But technically the communist North was independent in 1954 after defeating the French, and took another 20 years to extend their rule over the people in South Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh was fighting for what was North Vietnam immediately after WW2 when the French tried to keep Indo China as part of their Empire. As for the 'Free South' I think that may well be clouded by your view of history. When the US Forces returned to the US Vietnam became 1 country ruled from Hanoi. This was in April 1975.

The north was communist, the south was capitalist, which was determined by their supporter states, the USSR and the US after independence in 1954, however, this division was only meant to be temporary, with elections to re-unify the country.

During the Nguyen Dynasty, The Nguyen agreed to leave half of Vietnam to the French. South Vietnam's ownership was transferred to US, and Communist Government tried to take over South Vietnam, which they successfully did.

France colonized the whole of Vietnam in 1855 after the Sino-French War.

It escalated the cold war.

That escalation destroyed EVERY communist economy that contributed to it.

15 years later, EVERY communist country that contributed to it collapsed.

20 years later, China and Vietnam would become TOP US economic partners.

The purpose of the Vietnam war was to CONTAIN communism until it collapsed.

That is what happened.

Ho Cho Minh is one of some leader of communism in the world after war II. Many people think he's very bad and evil with hhis people is Vietnamese !

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From 1946-1954, the Communist backed Viet Minh battled the French to remove them from Indochina.