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{{Quote|I got a letter from LBJ. It said, "This is your lucky day. It's time to put your khaki trousers on. Though it may seem very queer, we've got no jobs to give you here, so we are sending you to Vietnam." Lyndon Johnson told the nation, Have no fear of escalation. I am trying everyone to please. Though it isn't really war, we're sending fifty thousand more to help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese.|Tom Paxton, "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation"}}

The '''Vietnam War''', also known as the '''Second Indochina War''', and in Vietnam as the '''Resistance War Against America''' or simply the '''American War''', was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the [[Fall of Saigon]] on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the [[Indochina Wars]] and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war is considered a [[Cold War]]-era proxy war by some US perspectives. The war would last approximately 19 years and would also form the [[Laotian Civil War]] as well as the [[Cambodian Civil War]], which resulted in all 3 countries becoming communist states in 1975.

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			{{Quote\|I got a letter from LBJ.<br>It said, "This is your lucky day.<br>It's time to put your khaki trousers on.<br>Though it may seem very queer,<br>we've got no jobs to give you here,<br>so we are sending you to Vietnam."<br>Lyndon Johnson told the nation,<br>Have no fear of escalation.<br>I am trying everyone to please.<br>Though it isn't really war,<br>we're sending fifty thousand more<br>to help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese.\|Tom Paxton, "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation"}}

	The '''Vietnam War''', also known as the '''Second Indochina War''', and in Vietnam as the '''Resistance War Against America''' or simply the '''American War''', was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the [[Fall of Saigon]] on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the [[Indochina Wars]] and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war is considered a [[Cold War]]-era proxy war by some US perspectives. The war would last approximately 19 years and would also form the [[Laotian Civil War]] as well as the [[Cambodian Civil War]], which resulted in all 3 countries becoming communist states in 1975.		The '''Vietnam War''', also known as the '''Second Indochina War''', and in Vietnam as the '''Resistance War Against America''' or simply the '''American War''', was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the [[Fall of Saigon]] on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the [[Indochina Wars]] and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war is considered a [[Cold War]]-era proxy war by some US perspectives. The war would last approximately 19 years and would also form the [[Laotian Civil War]] as well as the [[Cambodian Civil War]], which resulted in all 3 countries becoming communist states in 1975.