Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was the military struggle fought in Vietnam between 1959 to 1975, between the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front (NLF) in conflict with the United States and South Vietnamese army. The Vietnam War is one of the most important events in the 1960s because not only did it cause so many lives lost, but also a huge uproar of controversy with anti-war protestors. The Vietnam War was the second phase of fighting in Vietnam. Vietnam had been fighting for its independence from France. The communist 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 liberation. The Vietnam War can be separated into different periods based upon the United States involvement. In the early years of the war, it was mainly fought between the South Vietnamese