Vietnam War Portal

The Vietnam War Portal offers a comprehensive overview of one of the most pivotal conflicts of the 20th century, detailing the historical, political, and military aspects of the war fought between North and South Vietnam from 1955 to 1975. It explores key events, major battles, international involvement, particularly by the United States, and the war’s lasting impact on Southeast Asia and global geopolitics.

• Background
  • Japanese occupation of Indochina
  • First Indochina War
    • Battle of Dien Bien Phu
• Transition period
• Diệm era, 1954–1963
  • Rule
  • Insurgency in the South, 1954–1960
    • North Vietnamese involvement
• Kennedy’s escalation, 1961–1963
  • Ousting and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm
• Gulf of Tonkin and Johnson’s escalation, 1963–1969
  • Gulf of Tonkin incident
  • Bombing of Laos
  • The 1964 offensive
  • American ground war
• Tet Offensive and its aftermath
• Vietnamization (1969–1972)
  • Nuclear threats and diplomacy
  • Hanoi’s war strategy
  • U.S. domestic controversies
  • Collapsing U.S. morale
  • ARVN taking the lead and the U.S. ground force withdrawal
  • Cambodia
  • Laos
  • Easter Offensive and Paris Peace Accords (1972)
• U.S. exit and final campaigns (1973–1975)
  • Campaign 275
  • Final North Vietnamese offensive
  • Fall of Saigon
• Opposition to U.S. involvement
• Involvement of other countries
  • Pro-Hanoi
    • People’s Republic of China
    • Soviet Union
  • Pro-Saigon
• United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races
• War crimes
  • South Vietnamese, Korean, and American
  • North Vietnamese and Viet Cong
• Women
• Black servicemen
• Weapons
• Extent of U.S. bombings
• Casualties
• Aftermath
  • In Southeast Asia
    • In Vietnam
    • Laos and Cambodia
    • Unexploded ordnance
    • Refugee crisis
  • In the United States
    • Financial cost
    • Impact on the U.S. military
  • Effects of U.S. chemical defoliation
  • In popular culture
    • Myths