The Vietnam War: Causes, Duration, and Consequences, Ejercicios de Inglés

¡Descarga The Vietnam War: Causes, Duration, and Consequences y más Ejercicios en PDF de Inglés solo en Docsity! • The Vietnam War was a conflict that faced the State of Vietnam (north and south) between 1959 and 1975, • In 1954 the French left Vietnam after the defeat of Indochina leaving the country divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam • The main cause of the conflict was the attempt to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. This attempted coup was supported by North Vietnam, and led to a war between the two countries. ... The goal was to create a single communist country that would be an ally of China and the USSR. • At the beginning of 1964, the United States sent troops to South Vietnam to avoid the conquest by the communist north, giving rise to the conflict, which lasted 20 years. • The final communist offensive took place in the spring of 1975, the communists took Saigon and forced the surrender of the South Vietnamese. On July 2, 1976, the country was reunified under the name of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The war was over