The Vietnam War first started on September 26, 1959 to April 30, 1975. The war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between the communist in North Vietnam. The Vietnam War was fought at Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The war was fought long and hard. Thousands of people died from serving in The Vietnam war. Families lost their loved one and wives were left as widows. Families will never get the chance to say good-bye to their loved ones. This time in history was very sad and devastating.
The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. Military advisors began to arrive in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962.U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Operations spanned borders, with Laos and Cambodia heavily bombed. Involvement peaked in 1968 at the time of the Tet Offensive. After this, U.S. ground forces were withdrawn as part of a policy called Vietnamization. Despite the Paris Peace Accords, signed by all parties in January 1973, fighting continued.
There are multiple places that had something to do with The Vietnam war. Some of these places are Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Soviet Union, and North Korea. Australia and New Zealand both close allies of the United States and members of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), sent ground troops to Vietnam. The Philippines were primarily engaged in medical and other civilian pacification projects. These forces operated under the designation PHLCAG-V or Philippine Civic Action Group-Vietnam. The Soviet Union supplied North Vietnam with medical supplies, arms, tanks, planes, helicopters, artillery, anti-aircraft missiles and other military equipment. Soviet crews fired USSR-made surface-to air missiles at the B-52 bombers which were the first raiders shot down over Hanoi. Fewer than a dozen Soviet citizens lost their lives in this conflict. As a result of a decision of the Korean Workers' Party in October 1966, in early 1967 North Korea sent a fighter squadron to North Vietnam to back up the North Vietnamese 921st and 923rd fighter squadrons defending Hanoi. All of these places either helped the Vietnam or served in the war.

By: Jessica