The Vietnam War in photos (19 photos)

The war in Vietnam (Viet Nam. Chi? N tranh Vi? T Nam, Eng. Vietnam War) - one of the largest military conflicts of the second half of the XX century, has left an imprint on the culture and occupies an important place in the modern history of the United States and Vietnam. The war began as civil in South Vietnam; In the future, it intervened North Vietnam and the United States with the support of some other countries. Thus, on the one hand, the war was fought for the reunification of the two parts of Vietnam and the creation of a single state, and the other - for the preservation of the independence of South Vietnam. As events unfold, the Vietnam War was intertwined with the marching parallel civil wars in Laos and Cambodia. All combat operations in Southeast Asia, which took place from the end of the 1950s and until 1975, known as the Second Indochina War.