The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War Peace for Vietnam! nineteen sixty-five- nineteen seventy-five In Vietnam, confrontation continued between South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) which was supported by the United States, and North Vietnam (the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) which was communist. The United States military intervened on the grounds of halting the spread of communism. In February nineteen sixty-five, the United States began bombing North Vietnam and sending its ground combat troops into South Vietonam, which marked the start of a full scale war. Although the United States deployed numbers of up to, five hundred seventy thousand, soldiers, it was obliged to withdraw its forces from Vietnam because of various difficulties unique to a guerrilla war, and the growing anti-war public opinion in the United States. The U.S. military left Vietnam after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in nineteen seventy-three, the fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, In nineteen seventy-five effectively ended the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War, which was regarded as symbolic of the fight for colonial liberation, significantly influenced anti-establishment movements in Western countries.