Vietnam War Definition

noun
The war (c. 1957-75) between North Vietnam and South Vietnam: the U.S. participated on the side of South Vietnam, with its greatest military involvement in the period c. 1965-69
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The war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975 between South Vietnam (backed by the United States and SEATO) and North Vietnam aiding the South Vietnamese communist guerilla army known as the Vietcong (supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union) for the struggle for total Communist control of Vietnam as one state.

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Vietnam War Sentence Examples

  • These are defining images of the Iraq war, as the little girl burnt by napalm was the defining image of the Vietnam war.

  • A total of 58,175 daffodils surround this memorial -- one for each American who died in the Vietnam War.

  • A modern example is the Vietnam War Memorial, which lists all who died during the Vietnam War.

  • He also served as Commander and Emergency Medical Officer during the Vietnam War.

  • The Wall was dedicated in November, 1982 and marked by a march to the site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

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