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Topic 5F RAFT 16F Describe the key events of the Cold War era. F. the Vietnam War: The first war was between communist North Vietnam and South anit-communist Vietnam. The Vietnam war took place during the Cold war and was a result of citizens of Vietnam disliking the cu rrent president assigned by the U.N. The first American combat troops, the 9th marine Expidition Brigade, arrive in Vietnam to defend the U.S. airfield at Danang. Scattered Vietcong gunfire is reported, but no marines are injured.

The Vietnam War started on November 1st 1955 and ended on April 30th 1975 resulting in North and South Vietnam bieng reunited the following year. About 3 to 4 million Vietnamese and 58,159 U.S. soldiers died in the war. The goal of the United States in the Vietnam War was to smother the spread of Communism.

The Cold War began when the guns fell silent in Germany and in the Pacific.

In the Vietnam War the United States and the southern-based Republic of Vietnam opposed the southern-based revolutionary movement known as the Viet Cong and its sponsor, the Communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

The Vietnam war followed the first Indochina war and was fought between the communist North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations.

the Vietnam war was started because US wanted to impose its beliefs in another country

The Cold war was continuation of World War II that focuesd of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and exonomic competition mainly between the Soviet Union and United States and it was a nuclear arms race.

The French and Vietnam signed the Geneva Peace Accord in 1954. The Accord reflected the international strains of the Cold War. The Case-Church Amendment passed by the U.S. Congress prohibited use of American military after August 15, 1973 unless the president secured congressional approval in advance

After capturing Saigon in April 1975 to end the Vietnam War, North and South Vietnam reunified a year after.

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Between 1945 and 1954, the Vietnamese waged an anti-colonial war against France and received $2.6 billion in financial support from the United States. =====

The US entered the war and defended the South Vietnamese because they didn't want Communism (Northern Beliefs) to spread.

The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, the Vietnam Conflict or the American War, was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1, 1955, to April 30, 1975 when Saigon fell.

The last emperor of Vietnam, who ascended the throne in 1926. Bao Dai proved to be an ineffective ruler and was unable to exercise any of his powers without the support of the French colonial regime. He abdicated in 1946, after the Viet Minh drove out the Japanese occupation forces and took control of the government. In 1949, the French reinstalled Bao Dai as the premier of “independent Vietnam” but left affairs of state to his pro-French appointees. Only one year after the Geneva Conference created a republic in South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem outmaneuvered Bao Dai and took power; Bao Dai then retired to France.

The war was North Vietnam versus South Vietnam where, like the Korean war, the U.S. backed the non-communist South against the communist North.

1991- Cold War ended and end of Soviet Union.

The Vietnam war happened during the 1960`s and 1970`s of the cold war.

The Vietnam War was orginally fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, it went for nearly 20 years and the main reason the US was in it was to get rid of Communism.

The **Vietnam War** was a cold war military conflict that occurred in vietnam, laos, and cambodia from November 1, 1955