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Vietnam War
Military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975. It began as a determined attempt by Communist guerrillas (the so-called Vietcong) in the South, backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. The struggle widened into a war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam and ultimately into a limited international conflict. The United States and some 40 other countries supported South Vietnam by supplying troops and munitions, and the USSR and the People's Republic of China furnished munitions to North Vietnam and the Vietcong. On both sides, however, the burden of the war fell mainly on the civilians.
　　The war also engulfed Laos, where the Communist Pathet Lao fought the government from 1965 to 1973 and succeeded in abolishing the monarchy in 1975; and Cambodia, where the government surrendered in 1973 to the Communist Khmer Rouge.
　　This article is concerned primarily with the military aspects of the war; for further discussion of the historical and political issues involved, see Vietnam: History.Ho Chi Minh
One of the most important Communist leaders of the 20th century, Ho Chi Minh led the Vietnamese against French and Japanese forces for control of his homeland. Ho's forces, known as the Vietminh, seized control of the country from Japan in 1945 and proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, with Ho as president. France, however, was unwilling to concede independence to its former colony and in late 1946 drove the Vietminh out of southern Vietnam. In 1954, after eight years of guerrilla attacks from the Vietminh, France gave up the struggle and ceded North Vietnam to the Vietminh who, with Ho as president, proceeded to build a Communist society in the new country. When war resumed in the 1960s in South Vietnam between Communist forces trying to retake the country and anti-Communist forces supported by the United States, Ho became a symbol of unity and liberation for the Vietnamese people. 本内容由奥鹏易百网整理发布
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