Information Report

Vietnam war.

Did you know that war is legalized violence between two or more countries. The biggest conflict in the Vietnam war was between North Vietnam and the USA. It went on from 1965 until 1969.

North Vietnam didn’t like the way south Vietnam was lived a laid back lifestyle. North Vietnam was  communist country and was very strict. South Vietnam didn’t want to live like that and thats how the war started.

There were two sides in this conflict. North Vietnam and the Viet Cong were called the Coalition Forces. The USA, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and South Vietnam were called the Allied Troops.

They used a lot of rifles, boats and planes. The most dangerous weapon was a deadly gas called Agent Orange which was meant to burn the trees but it also burnt the people. Six million people died in the war, more people died then than there is people in Samoa and Tonga.

America took away their army from the war because they were anti war. That meant South Vietnam had little support. North Vietnam had new weapons from Russia and south Vietnamese army was getting smaller . They had no choices but to surrender. To show they had won North Vietnam changed the name of Saigon, South Vietnam’s capital city, to Ho Chi Min City.

Not many people know the youngest soldier killed was 16 years old and the oldest soldier killed was 62 years old.