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The Vietnam War was from 1957 to 1975. It is the longest war that the U.S. took part in. To sum up the war, Vietnam was seperated into two parts. The two parts were Communist-ruled North Vietnam, and noncommunist South Vietnam.North wanted to end U.S. support of South Vietnam. The North wanted to unite with the South and become one nation.

The Vietnam War was a second phase of fighting in Vietnam. In 1946 Vietnam was part of the colony of French Indochina and the Vietnamese fought for their independence. The United States provided military equipment, but the French were defeated in 1954. Then Vietnam was divided into North and South Vietnam. Communists saw the Vietnam War as an extension of their struggle with France, as another attempt by a foreign power to rule Vietnam, and as a war of national liberation. China and the Soviet Union supported the Vietnamese Communists with war materials but not troops.

The war could be sort of seperated into different parts. Like from 1957-1965 it was mainly a struggle between the South Vietnamese army and Communist-trained South Vietnamese rebels known as the Viet Cong. The first U.S. troops entered Vietnam in March 1965. Until 1969, North Vietnam and the United States did most of the fighting. By 1969 the U.S. began to withdraw troops. In January 1973 a cease-fire was arranged. The war finally ended on April 30, 1975 when South Vietnam surrendered to North Vietnam.

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