The Vietnam War was a protracted conflict between the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. It was called the "American War" in Vietnam. Anti-war opinion increased in the US from the mid-1960s on, with rallies, teach-ins, and other forms of demonstration. The Vietnam War was the longest in U.S. history, the longest to have been happening until the Afghanistan…
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