Vietnam war

Task
1. What the conflict is about:
The conflict was about North Vietnam that wanted South Vietnam to have a communistic leadership.
The whole country at that time was controlled by South Vietnam. 




2. Who the parties are: 
North Vietnam and their communistic allies was the attacking part and South Vietnam supported by USA and other anti-communistic nations was the defending part.




3. How the war is fought  
The war started when the FNL guerrilla (also called Viet Cong) supported by North Vietnam rebelled against the South Vietnamese government, trying to unite Vietnam under communistic leadership.
USA then got involved on the South Vietnamese side, fearing communism spreading in all of South Asia. The conflict then grew and spread to Cambodia and Laos.


North Vietnam fought most of the war in a way called guerrilla warfare. They had  a smaller amount of weapons, military equipment and they were less people and therefore they had to fight the war in a different way. Guerilla warfare is a way to fight a war using small mobile units against a bigger and better equipped enemy.


4. Information about the solution (if there was one).
In 1973 USA withdrew themselves out of the war. The main reason was that the american goverment didnt think they could win the war. There was also political pressure and the american people was tired of getting theire sons in home in coffins.  


In 1975 The South Vietnamese capital, Saigon was captured by North Vietnamese forces, which marked the end of the war.
North and South vietnam was reunited the year after.
The war led to that 5 million people died and was injured and of those were 3 million civilians.


Sources: Wikipedia were I searched for the Vietnam war