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Vietnam
[ vee-et-nahm, -nam, vyet-, vee-it- ]
noun
- Official_name Socialist Republic of Vietnam. a country in Southeast Asia, comprising the former states of Annam, Tonkin, and Cochinchina: formerly part of French Indochina; divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War but now reunified. 126,104 sq. mi. (326,609 sq. km). : Hanoi. Compare North Vietnam, South Vietnam.
Vietnam
/ ˌvjɛtˈnæm /
noun
- a republic in SE Asia: an ancient empire, conquered by France in the 19th century; occupied by Japan (1940–45) when the Communist-led Vietminh began resistance operations that were continued against restored French rule after 1945. In 1954 the country was divided along the 17th parallel, establishing North Vietnam (under the Vietminh) and South Vietnam (under French control), the latter becoming the independent Republic of Vietnam in 1955. From 1959 the country was dominated by war between the Communist Vietcong, supported by North Vietnam, and the South Vietnamese government; increasing numbers of US forces were brought to the aid of the South Vietnamese army until a peace agreement (1973) led to the withdrawal of US troops; further fighting led to the eventual defeat of the South Vietnamese government in March 1975 and in 1976 an elected National Assembly proclaimed the reunification of the country. Official language: Vietnamese. Religion: Buddhist majority. Currency: dong. Capital: Hanoi. Pop: 92 477 857 (2013 est). Area: 331 041 sq km (127 816 sq miles) Official nameSocialist Republic of Vietnam
Vietnam
- Republic in Southeast Asia , bordered by Cambodia and Laos to the west, China to the north, and the South China Sea (an arm of the Pacific Ocean ) to the east and south.
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Army veteran John Hoefen, 73, served in Vietnam and has a 100% disability rating from the VA for Parkinson’s disease related to Agent Orange exposure.
Whether it be me because I got a B, or whether it be my sister, because she was against the war in Vietnam and he wasn’t.
In Vietnam, India and Brazil, people with higher English speaking proficiency can earn about two to three times more than their colleagues, she said.
You know, when I was in Vietnam, we were pretty much under constant mortar and rocket attack.
Vann returned to Vietnam as a civilian adviser and ended up commanding the military operations of an entire province.
Compared with neighbors Myanmar, Vietnam, and Laos, Cambodia appears to have a blossoming civil society.
Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.
Same with my uncle and cousins when their planes landed from Vietnam.
One of the most horrific episodes of the Vietnam War is being made into a government-funded opera.
In Vietnam, Lewis was advisor to a Vietnamese infantry unit, whose nickname for him was “Captain of Many Kilos.”
They talk about how badly the Vietnam veterans were treated when they came back, but I think what happened to us was just as bad.
The Vietnam War is a grim reminder of the political nature of conflict and how our power was once outflanked.
The experiences that this study group collectively had in Vietnam makes this concern very strongly held.
Policy statements have also consistently voiced support for the communist effort in South Vietnam.
To have done so might have averted at least some of the racial turmoil visited on the services in the Vietnam era.
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