The War

The Vietnam War occurred in Southeast Asia. Vietnam has been under foreign rule primarily by the Chinese. During the WWII the Japanese began to go weak and Vietnam tried to grow stronger independently. France soon recognized Vietnam as a "free state" within the French Union. French troops replace Chinese in the North. France started to invade Vietnam and trying to take control, but Vietnamese was not having that. The U.S wanted to hep Vietnam with there weak army, but it would start massive conflict between France and the Chinese. By 1950, the U.S started to send millions of our soldiers to fight in the war. Roughly the Vietnam War lasted for 11 years, and finally came to an end. The Paris Peace ended the conflict on January 27, 1973, and withdrawal all of the remaining American troops. Vietnamese kept the territory they had captured, released US prisoners of war, and called for both sides to find a political solution to the conflict. That is a brief summer of what caused the Vietnam war and how it ended.