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The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that 

pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its 

southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South 

Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The 

divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with 

the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification 

of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. 

More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, 

were killed in the conflict.

The causes of the Vietnam War were derived 

from the symptoms, components and 

consequences of the Cold War. The causes of 

the Vietnam War revolve around the simple 

belief held by America that communism was 

threatening to expand all over south-east Asia. 

The US entered the Vietnam 

War in an attempt to prevent 

the spread of Communism. 

In 1975, a sustained North 

Vietnamese offensive forced South 

Vietnamese troops to begin 

withdrawing from northern 

provinces; the withdrawal quickly 

became a disorganized retreat. 

When communists began 

moving on Saigon, President 

Gerald Ford, who succeeded to 

the presidency in August 1974 

after the resignation of Richard 

Nixon, announced that the 

Vietnam War was "finished."

As Saigon fell, Ford ordered an 

evacuation of American citizens 

and Vietnamese sympathizers. 

More than one hundred 

thousand Vietnamese refugees 

entered the United States.

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