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| image =SaigonFall.jpg
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| date =1959-1975
| location =[[Vietnam]]
| combatant1 ='''Anticommunist Forces'''<br/>[[South Vietnam]]<br/>[[United States]]
| combatant2 ='''Communist Forces'''<br/>[[North Vietnam]]
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[[Image:SaigonFall.jpg|thumb|South Vietnamese residents flee [[Saigon]], as North Vietnamese forces enter the city.]]
The '''Vietnam War,''' also known as the Second Indochina War or The American War (in Vietnam), was fought principally between [[North Vietnamese]] [[Communist]] troops and [[South Vietnamese]] forces supported by American soldiers. The war was basically a fight over whether South Vietnam should have a Communist government, part of the ongoing [[Cold War]] between the US and the Soviets.