{"id":191294,"date":"2019-06-14T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=191294"},"modified":"2025-03-08T22:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T22:08:27","slug":"vietnam-war-facts","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/vietnam-war-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Interesting Facts About the Vietnam War"},"content":{"rendered":"
A long war that began in 1955 and didn\u2019t end until 1979, the Vietnam War is one of the most well-known conflicts of recent years.\n
There are many interesting facts about the Vietnam War which many people don\u2019t know \u2013 let\u2019s explore some of the lesser-known facts about this period of history.\n
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Although international law has many measures and regulations to prevent injuries and deaths to civilians, the sad reality is that it is often innocent civilians who pay the price for war.\n
The Vietnam War was a conflict between the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong, and the South Vietnamese and the United States of America.\n
However, Vietnamese civilians on both sides of the conflicts were killed, both combatants and civilians.\n
By 1995, Vietnam had realized the full scale of civilian harm during the war.\n
Over 2 million civilians from both the North and South had been killed, with over a million soldiers killed between all armies involved.\n
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The Vietnam War was primarily between the North and South of Vietnam, but it didn\u2019t end there.\n
Laos and Cambodia were heavily involved in the war, which meant their civilians paid a large price.\n
Laos is thought to be the most heavily bombed country in the world per capita, with an estimated 30% of cluster bombs remaining unexploded.\n
When the United Nations set the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals, they included an extra goal for Laos \u2013 to rid the country of dangerous unexploded items.\n
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Before the Vietnam War, the North of the country was governed by a communist government, while the South was governed separately by a government that sought to align itself further with the West.\n
Since the Northern government wanted to unite the country, the Vietnam War started as a civil war, seeking to bring the North and South together and create a united Vietnam.\n
However, the North sought help from the Viet Cong from the South, while the South brought in help from the United States of America.\n
The fall of Saigon in 1975 was an important milestone, and the North was able to bring together the country at last with Ha Noi as the capital.\n
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France had colonized Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, a group of nations that had become known as French Indochina.\n
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam had come into power in 1945 and sought to gain independence from France.\n