This page contains a map detailing the major battles of the Vietnam War with related reading on the Vietnam War.
Brief Overview of Vietnam War
Following World War 2 communist country’s lead by China recognized the Vietminh’s democratic republic of Vietnam as the official government of North Vietnam, whilst other nations recognized the French-backed, South Vietnamese Government, With emperor Bao Dai as its ruler. With the outbreak of the Korean war in the early 1950’s governments believed that Indochina was a direct expansionism of Communism by the Soviet Union. The Vietminh government begun forming a regular army assisted by Chinese military advises and by 1954 had become a well equipped and powerful force. Read Full Article Here
Major Vietnam War Map points of interest:
- U.S Air Raids 1966-1973
- Mining of Haiphong Harbour 1964
- Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964
- U.S. Air Raids on Supply Routes 1965-1973
- Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) 1954
- Khe Sanh 1968
- Quang Tri Province – 1972
- Tet Offensive – 1968
- Invasion of Laos 1971
- Ho Chi Minh Trail
- Dak To 1967
- Pleiku 1965
- Central Highlands 1965-1971, 1975
- Invasion of Cambodia 1970
- Phuoc Long Province 1974 – 1975
- An Loc 1972
- Xuan Loc 1975
- Saigon 1975
- Mekong Delta 1957
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