{"id":5490,"count":0,"description":"The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. Opposition to the war in the United States bitterly divided Americans, even after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.\r\n\r\nThe Vietnam War and active U.S. involvement in the war began in 1954, though ongoing conflict in the region had stretched back several decades.\r\n\r\nAfter Ho\u2019s communist forces took power in the north, armed conflict between northern and southern armies continued until a decisive the northern Viet Minh\u2019s decisive victory in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in May 1954. 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