Vietnam War

Previous	Korean War, 1958 Lebanon crisis
Concurrent	Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War
Caption	Clockwise top left: U.S operation in Battle of La Drang, ARVN Rangers defending Saigon during Tet Offensive,two Douglas A-4Cen route for airstrikes against North Vietnam after the Gulfof Tonkin, ARVN recapture Quang Tri during 1972 Easter Offensive, civilians fleeing the 1972 Quang Tri, burial of 300 victims of the 1968 Hue Massacre.
Date	November 1st 1955 - April 30th 1975
Outcome	North Vietnamese victory
Belligerents
Forces 1	South Vietnam United States South Korea Thailand New Zealand Australia Khmer Republic Kingdom of Laos Philippines Republic of China Canada West Germany United Kingdom Iran Spain Malaysia
Forces 2	North Vietnam Viet Cong Khmer Rouge Pather Lao Peoples Republic Of China Soviet Union North Korea Cuba Czechoslovakia Bulgaria East Germany Romania Sweden
Commanders
Commanders 1	Ngo Dinh Diem Nguyen Van Thieu Nguyen Cao Ky Cao Van Vien Ngo Quang Truong John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon Robert McNamara William Westmoreland Creighton Abrams Frederick C. Weyand Park Chung-hee Thanom Kittikachorn Robert Menzies Harold Holt John McEwen John Gorton William McMahon Ferdinand Marcos Keith Holyoake Jack Marshall Norman Kirk
Commanders 2	Ho Chi Minh Le Duan Vo Nguyen Giap Van Tien Dung Le Trong Tan Pham Van Dong Hoang Van Thai Tran Van Tra Nguyen Van Linh Nguyen Huu Tho
Causalities
Casualties 1	Total Dead: 315,384 Total Wounded: 1,490,000+
Casualties 2	Total Dead: 1,177,462 Total Wounded: 604,200+
Combatants
Combatants 1	U.S Army U.S.M.C Ryan Honduran Jack Johnathan Clayex Rexford Tyrone Vector Throne Fredric Shepherd South Korea South Vietnam
Combatants 2	North Korea Soviet Union China North Vietnam Viet Cong
Strength
Strength 1	South Vietnam: 850,000 United States: 536,100 Freed World Forces: 65,000 South Korea: 312,853 Australia: 49,968 (1962-1973) Thailand, Philippines: 10,450 New Zealand: 3,890
Strength 2	North Vietnam: 340,000 PRC: 170,000 (1969) Soviet Union: 3,000 North Korea: 300

The Vietnam War abbreviated : The Second Indochina War was apart of the Cold War the war ended in 1975 after collage students rioting to have the U.S. troops pulled out of Vietnam.