who lost the vietnam war?
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Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge on 17 April 1975 while the 1975 Spring Offensive saw the capture of Saigon by the PAVN on 30 April; this marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year. The scale of fighting was enormous.
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The War on Poverty was ultimately limited in its effectiveness by the economic resources consumed by the country's increasing involvement in the Vietnam War.
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The primary evidence for the domino theory is the spread of communist rule in three Southeast Asian countries in 1975, following the communist takeover of Vietnam: South Vietnam (by the Viet Cong), Laos (by the Pathet Lao), and Cambodia (by the Khmer Rouge).
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The USA became involved in Vietnam because it feared the spread of communism. The USA were unable to defeat the Vietcong and were met with growing opposition to the war back home.
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After three years of a bloody and frustrating war, the United States, the People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea agree to an armistice, bringing the fighting of the Korean War to an end. The armistice ended America's first experiment with the Cold War concept of “limited war.”
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Pakistan is the only country in the history that has never lost a war and have successfully defeated an enemy 4 times its size on several occasions. North Vietnam surrendered in January 1973, prompting the US withdrawal.
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England as the United Kingdom has lost only to the US and that was two times. The Revolutionary war and war of 1812.
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After the war, Vietnam went back to being one all communist countruy. After the Korean War, the country remained divided with the North still being cmmunist and the south remaining non-communist. Korea was a short war and Vietnam was a long war. Korea was similar to WW2 in terms of fighting.
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The United States entered the war to prevent the spread of communism. North Vietnam was communist and wanted to make North Vietnam and South Vietnam one country. The United States entered this war prevent the spread of communism over South- East Asia.
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Reason three - The Domino Theory China had become communist in 1949 and communists were in control of North Vietnam. The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government.
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The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) in the north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist countries, while the United States and its anticommunist allies backed the Republic of Vietnam (ROV) in the south.
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In 1965, the U.S. began Operation Rolling Thunder, an air campaign aimed at encouraging the beleaguered South, while reducing the communist North's morale with targeted bombings. By the end of the year, more than 180,000 U.S. troops were at war in Vietnam.
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The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China).
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As explained in the responses here, the North Vietnamese (NVA or PAVN) were the formal army of North Vietnam while the Viet Cong (short for Vietnamese Communist) was the guerrilla Army of South Vietnam. Actually, the Viet Cong was formed from the remnants of the Viet Minh who had successful fought the French.
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The war was fought by France, the long-time colonial ruler in the Indochina, and Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian Communist rebel forces. The First Indochina War ended in French defeat following the surrender of a French army to the Viet Minh rebels in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
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The only surviving communist states are China, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea and Laos. Their state socialist experience was more in line with decolonization from the Global North and anti-imperialism towards the West instead of the Red Army occupation of the former Eastern Bloc.
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VJ: Vietnam. VS: Vietnam. VT: Vietnam and Thailand-ray.