The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It ended with the loss of around 3 million lives, and communist North Vietnam winning the war. But the U.S. led war on the North came at a huge cost.