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The Vietnam war was a war between the North-Vietnamese, and South-Vietnamese. The North Vietnamese were trying to take over the South to spread communism, which America was greatly opposed to.. 1958 was around the time the Vietcong, North Vietnam, first started attacking the South Vietnamese. America came in to help stop the spread of communism to the south. By 1963 the anti-communists, South Vietnam, had lost the Mekong Delta to the Vietcong and in 1965 President Johnson decided to pick it up and started sending in air strikes, and more infantry troops to help the cause. The amount of troops jumped up to 536,000 at that time. By 1968 game, America had a new president, Richard Nixon, who tried to solve the conflict through diplomacy and in January 1973 and agreement was made and U.S. forces were pulled out of Vietnam. Overall America suffered 350,000 casulaties, while there were between one to two million Vietnamese deaths.
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