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The South Viet Government had an Air Force, flying A-1 Skyraiders (see film: "Rescue Dawn"-to see the Skyraider attack airplane), F-5 Freedom Fighters (jets), helicopters, and 0-1 Bird Dog observation airplanes. The ARVN (Army Republic of South Vietnam) was the South Viet Army, and they had a Marine Corps, Rangers, artillery and armor (M-41 Walker Bulldog Light Tanks), and later a battalion of M48 Patton medium tanks. The South Viet Government drafted it's men; just like Australia and the US did, and had close to a million men under arms during the war.

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Which of the following presidents approved the backing of the South Vietnamese in their Civil War?

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What action made china reluctant to improve relations with the Unites States?

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Cambodia


Why did American soldiers begin to question us involvement in the war?

american soldiers thought many south vietnamese were indifferent toward their own nation


What actions made china reluctant to improve relations with the US?

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The US wound down its war involvement by transferring fighting from American to South Vietnamese troops a process that was called?

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South Vietnamese president.


What problem made China reluctant to open relations with the United states?

South Vietnamese invasion of Laos American support for Taiwan


Where the viet cong pro American elements of the south Vietnamese military?

Absolutely not - On the contrary, they were the guerilla, civilian peasant farmers who took up weapons against American troops in support of the communists, alongside the NVA, or north Vietnamese army/


Who were American defending in the Vietnam war?

The South Vietnamese


Vietnamese opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam war?

The north wanted the US out, the south wanted the US to stay.


How did the US involvement end in Vietnam?

By 1970 it was plainly clear that the Unites States people had turned against any further support for the war in Vietnam; and South Vietnamese government was too corrupt an inefficient for them to be able to wage the war for much longer. Funding to support the corrupt South Vietnamese regime was cut back significantly and starting in 1971 the United States military began withdrawing their forces from Vietnam. In 1973, the Vietnamese were left to fight it out for themselves; and in 1975 South Vietnam was overrun and surrendered.


Vietcong?

Communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954-75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War.


Describe the 1971 operation directed at interrupting the Ho Chi Minh Trail?

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