The Vietnam War was a prolonged expensive and divisive conflict between the communist government of North Vietnam and South Vietnam whose main ally was the United States Yet it often gets ...
The word Vietnam alone, immediately brings to mind the ominous war of the 1970s that shook the country, harshly described by director Francis Ford Coppola in the film Apocalypse Now. Today ...
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Military history professor Bill Allison rates more Vietnam War movies, such as "Forrest Gump," for realism. Allison breaks down additional battlefield tactics used by the Viet Cong, or VC ...
With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva. Communists in the north aim to reunify the country, while America supports Ngo Dinh Diem's untested regime in the south.