Outline of the Vietnam War

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Vietnam War:

Contents

• What was the Vietnam War
• General history of the Vietnam War
• North Vietnam and its allies
• South Vietnam and its allies
• Years in the Vietnam War
• Operations during the Vietnam War
• Battles of the Vietnam War
• Air campaigns of the Vietnam War
• South Vietnam
• North Vietnam
• United States
• Anti war publications in the US forces
• South Vietnamese
• American
• South Korean
• North Vietnamese
• Cambodian
• Non fiction
• Fiction
• Other
• References

Vietnam War – Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War (1946–54) and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States, Philippines and other anti-communist allies. The Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front, or NLF), a South Vietnamese communist common front aided by the North, fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. The People's Army of Vietnam, also known as the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), engaged in a more conventional war, at times committing large units to battle.