armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, from 1955 to 1975
Documented facts
- Date
- 1 November 1955 (Gregorian) — 30 April 1975 (Gregorian)
- Precision
- Day
- Referenced location
- Laos
- Source coordinates
- 18.2000°, 104.1000°
- Part of
- Cold War
Referenced participants
- South Vietnam ↗
- United States ↗
- South Korea ↗
- Thailand ↗
- Philippines ↗
- New Zealand ↗
- Khmer Republic ↗
- Kingdom of Laos ↗
- North Vietnam ↗
- National Liberation Front of South Vietnam ↗
- Communist Party of the Cambodia (Khmer Rouge) ↗
- Pathet Lao ↗
- People's Republic of China ↗
- North Korea ↗
- GRUNK ↗
- Kingdom of Cambodia ↗
- Australia ↗
Documented participation does not establish opposing sides. Alliances absent from the sources are not reconstructed.
People and command
- Creighton Abrams — documented participation · Source ↗
- Mao Zedong — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hoàng Văn Thái — documented participation · Source ↗
- William Westmoreland — documented participation · Source ↗
- Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. — documented participation · Source ↗
- Montgomery Meigs — documented participation · Source ↗
- Barry McCaffrey — documented participation · Source ↗
- Leonid Brezhnev — documented participation · Source ↗
- Lyndon B. Johnson — documented participation · Source ↗
- Gerald Ford — documented participation · Source ↗
- Peter Cosgrove — documented participation · Source ↗
- Michael Jeffery — documented participation · Source ↗
- Gough Whitlam — documented participation · Source ↗
- John Gorton — documented participation · Source ↗
- Harold Holt — documented participation · Source ↗
- Robert Menzies — documented participation · Source ↗
- Fidel Ramos — documented participation · Source ↗
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