The Vietnam War started in the first of November in 1955 and finished 19 years later and about 180 days later in the 30th of April in 1975. It started as an anti-colonial disagreement with France, which led to a temporarily division between an anti-communist south and a communist north which were called the Viet Cong. This disagreement of union is the won that started the war between the two different types of government in one nation. The United States went into this war by helping trying to help the South Vietnamese since the United States was and is anti-communist. When the war started United States had sent about 2000 military advisors to help out South Vietnam. Later on in the war United States had sent about 16,000 military personnel to Vietnam, which didn’t really help Vietnam so much because in 1975 South Vietnam surrendered which led to a unification of both governments again. “The Vietnam war cost the united states 58,000 lives and about 150,000 casualties”. The war in my opinion was useless it led to nothing and was just really a waste of time and American lives, nobody really won and almost everybody died.
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