Vietnam War History

The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War,and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies and the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies and the war is therefore considered a Cold War-era proxy war.

The Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front, or NLF), a South Vietnamese communist common front aided by the North, fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region, while the People's Army of Vietnam, also known as the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), engaged in more conventional warfare, at times committing large units to battle. As the war continued, the military actions of the Viet Cong decreased as the role and engagement of the NVA grew. South Vietnamese and U.S. forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery, and airstrikes. In the course of the war, the U.S. conducted a large-scale strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war and a continuation of the First Indochina War against forces from France and later on the U.S. The U.S. government viewed its involvement in the war as a way to prevent a Communist takeover of South Vietnam. This was part of a wider containment policy, with the stated aim of stopping the spread of communism.

越南战争（越南：简tranh越南），也被称为第二次印度支那战争，并称为越南作为抗战时期对美国（越南语：KHANG简崇MY）或只是美国人的战争，是发生在越南战争，老挝和柬埔寨从1955年11月1至西贡于1975年4月30日下跌这是印度支那战争的第二和北越和南越政府之间的正式作战。北越军队被苏联，中国和其他共产主义盟友和南越军队由美国，韩国，澳大利亚，泰国等反共的盟友和战争，因此被认为是一种冷War-得到支持支持时代的代理人战争。

越共（也被称为民族解放阵线，或NLF），一个南越共产党共同阵线由北援助，攻打该地区的反共势力游击战争，而越南人民军，也被称为北越陆军（NVA），从事更多的常规战争，有时犯下的大户型战斗。随着战争的继续，越共的军事行动减少作为角色和NVA的订婚增长。南越和美国军队依靠空中优势和压倒性的火力进行搜索和摧毁行动，包括地面部队，大炮和空袭。在战争期间，美国进行了对北越大规模战略轰炸。

北越政府和越共而战重新统一越南。他们认为冲突作为一个殖民地战争和第一次印度支那战争的反对势力来自法国的延续，后来在美国，美国政府认为其参与战争，以此来防止南越共产党接管。这是一个更广泛的遏制政策的一部分，停止共产主义的扩张的既定目标。