Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a major conflict between two extreme systems of government.  The two opposing sides were the communist Soviet Union and the democratic United States. The United States supported the southern Vietnamese while the Soviet Union supported the Northern Vietnamese. This is the first war the United States has ever been in where they can’t distinguish the citizens from the soldiers. This was also the first all guerilla warfare war between two major powers. Although the Soviets never sent many troops to aid the Northern Vietnamese they spent a lot of money sending supplies and weapons to the communist allies. As the war progressed it became clear that there were too many advantages against the US and a victory was impossible with out keeping it moderately humane. The factor that made it clear as to why victory was impossible was the Viet Cong; a private supporting communist army made up of citizens that used deadly guerilla warfare against the anti-communist US. During the war, at home people felt that if the people of Vietnam wanted to become communist then let them, they shouldn’t be sending US citizens to fight for politically security of democracy. The war was quickly and cleanly ended by the retreat of the entire US army on April 30^th, 1975.