Vietnam War

From BR Bullpen

The Vietnam War, sometimes known as the Vietnam Conflict (also known as the Second Indochina War and colloquially as Vietnam or Nam as well as the American War or Kháng chiến chống Mỹ, the Resistance War Against America by the Vietnamese government) was a conflict in which the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, or North Vietnam) and its allies fought against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam) and its allies. It is considered by many Westerners as a "proxy war", one of several that occurred during the Cold War between the United States and its Western allies on the one hand, and the Soviet Union and/or the People's Republic of China on the other (another such war took place in Korea). The war itself lasted from 1957 to April 30, 1975 with the capitulation of South Vietnam and reunification of the country.