Vietnam War

From the USAF public archives - footage of the 1972 Christmas bombing of Hanoi.

“Refighting the last war” ensured U.S. defeat.

The Geneva Accords of 1954 ended eight years of fighting between France and Vietnam, but they hastened American involvement in Vietnam.

The Geneva Accords created North and South Vietnam as temporary states. In reality, both had already become separate national entities.

In August 1964, two American battleships were allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin, giving the U.S. pretext to launch the Vietnam War.

Before the Vietnam War was illegally and secretively extended into Cambodia, the country was ruled by a popular liberal monarch, who kept Pol Pot and the Khm...

As President Obama makes a historic visit to Laos, ABC News' Bob Woodruff uncovers decades-old cluster bombs that are claiming lives of innocent children.SUB...

Read about the extension of the U.S. war in Vietnam to Laos and Cambodia, where unexploded bombs still maim and kill people.

East vs West, Democracy vs Communism, USA vs the Soviet Union- unfortunately for the residents of Vietnam they would become the casualties of a struggle far ...