The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, took place from 1955 to 1975 between the communistic North Vietnam, supported by China and Russia, and the western-oriented South Vietnam, supported by the United States of America. North Vietnam eventually won. The war would go down in the history books as the first ever war lost by the United States. More than 2 million people were killed during this war, including more than 58,000 Americans.
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