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Sunday, July 28, 2024

Collection of facts about the Vietnam War

This post is a collection of facts about the Vietnam War (1955-1975). There are 22 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• North Vietnam and Viet Cong supported by Soviet Union and China
• South Vietnam supported by United States
• Total casualties: 1.3 - 3.4 million
• Vietnamese civilian casualties: 400 thousand - 2.0 million
• US casualties: 58 thousand
• 1954 Geneva Conference ends French Indochina and establishes 17th parallel border between North Vietnam and South Vietnam
• North Vietnam invades Laos: 1958
• Laotian Civil War: 1959-1975
• Buddhist crisis: 1963
• South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm assassinated: November 2nd, 1963
• Gulf of Tonkin incident: 1964
• Operation Rolling Thunder: 1965-1968
• Buddhist Uprising: 1966
• Cambodian Civil War: 1967-1975
• Huế massacre: 1968
• My Lai massacre: 1968
• Tet Offensive: 1968
• Easter Offensive: 1972
• Paris Peace Accords: 1973
• 1975 spring offensive
• Fall of Phnom Penh: April 1975
• Fall of Saigon: April 30th, 1975

Sources

Wikipedia: Laotian Civil War, Cambodian Civil War, 1970 Cambodian coup d'état