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Vietnam War
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Like football, basically a game of two halves.
The first half (1946 - 1954) was the Vietnamese vs the French, ending in a rather predicatble win for the Vietnamese led by Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh, who had been trained by the US to fight the Japanese in WW2. A foreshadow of Afghanistan.
The second half (1959 - 1975) featured North Vietnam vs South Vietnam.
The North was communist, and backed by both the USSR and China. The South was backed by the US, Australians, South Koreans and suchlike.
The second half was also a win for Ho Chi Minh.
