Background

The Vietnam War was a long-lasting conflict in Southeast Asia. It started after World War II and ended in 1975. More than one million Vietnamese soldiers and over 50,000 Americans were killed in the war. It also cost the lives of over two million civilians . It started with the French being kicked out and Vietnam dividing into two sections. The sections became the north and the south. The Soviets supported the north and the Americans supported the south. There had been a lasting conflict before America got involved. This became one of the bloodies wars in the United States history. Yet it ended the conflict in Vietnam.