<Table> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Vietnam War ( Chiến tranh Việt Nam ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> Clockwise , from top left : U.S. combat operations in Ia Drang , ARVN Rangers defending Saigon during the 1968 Tet Offensive , two A-4C Skyhawks after the Gulf of Tonkin incident , ARVN recapture Quảng Trị during the 1972 Easter Offensive , civilians fleeing the 1972 Battle of Quảng Trị , and burial of 300 victims of the 1968 Huế Massacre . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Date </Th> <Td> 1 November 1955 -- 30 April 1975 ( 1975 - 04 - 30 ) ( 19 years , 5 months , 4 weeks and 1 day ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> South Vietnam , North Vietnam , Cambodia , Laos </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Result </Th> <Td> <P> North Vietnamese victory </P> <Ul> <Li> Withdrawal of American - led forces from Indochina </Li> <Li> Communist governments take power in South Vietnam , Cambodia and Laos </Li> <Li> South Vietnam is annexed by North Vietnam </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Territorial changes </Th> <Td> Reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam . </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Belligerents </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> South Vietnam United States South Korea Thailand Australia Philippines New Zealand Khmer Republic Laos </P> <P> Military support : Taiwan </P> Other support ( show ) <Ul> <Li> Malaysia </Li> <Li> Spain </Li> <Li> Canada </Li> <Li> Iran </Li> <Li> West Germany </Li> <Li> Brazil </Li> <Li> Japan </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <P> North Vietnam Viet Cong Khmer Rouge Pathet Lao China North Korea Military support : Soviet Union Cuba </P> Other support ( show ) <Ul> <Li> Czechoslovakia </Li> <Li> Bulgaria </Li> <Li> East Germany </Li> <Li> Romania </Li> <Li> Poland </Li> <Li> Hungary </Li> <Li> Sweden </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Commanders and leaders </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Ngô Đình Diệm † Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Cao Văn Viên Ngô Quang Trưởng John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Robert McNamara William Westmoreland Creighton Abrams Frederick C. Weyand Park Chung - hee Thanom Kittikachorn Robert Menzies Harold Holt John McEwen John Gorton William McMahon Ferdinand Marcos Keith Holyoake Jack Marshall Norman Kirk Chiang Kai - Shek ... and others </Td> <Td> Ho Chi Minh Lê Duẩn Võ Nguyên Giáp Văn Tiến Dũng Lê Trọng Tấn Phạm Văn Đồng Hoàng Văn Thái Trần Văn Trà Nguyễn Văn Linh Nguyễn Hữu Thọ ... and others </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Strength </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> ≈ 1,420,000 ( 1968 ) South Vietnam : 850,000 ( 1968 ) 1,500,000 ( 1974 -- 75 ) </P> United States : 543,000 ( April 1969 ) South Korea : 50,003 Thailand : 11,570 Australia : 7,672 Philippines : 2,061 New Zealand : 552 </Td> <Td> <P> ≈ 1,060,000 ( 1967 ) </P> North Vietnam : 690,000 ( January 1967 ) Viet Cong : 200,000 ( estimated , 1968 ) China : 170,000 ( 1967 ) North Korea : 200 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Casualties and losses </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> South Vietnam 195,000 -- 430,000 civilian dead 220,357 -- 313,000 military dead 1,170,000 wounded United States 58,318 dead ; 303,644 wounded ( including 150,341 not requiring hospital care ) South Korea 5,099 dead ; 10,962 wounded ; 4 missing Australia 521 dead ; 3,129 wounded Thailand 351 dead ; 1,358 wounded New Zealand 37 dead ; 187 wounded Taiwan 25 dead ; Philippines 9 dead ; 64 wounded </P> Total military dead : 284,668 -- 377,311 Total wounded : ≈ 1,340,000 + </Td> <Td> <P> North Vietnam & Viet Cong 65,000 civilian dead 849,018 military dead 600,000 + wounded China ≈ 1,100 dead and 4,200 wounded North Korea 14 dead </P> Total military dead : 850,132 + Total wounded : ≈ 604,200 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> <P> Vietnamese civilian dead : 627,000 -- 2,000,000 Vietnamese total dead : 966,000 -- 3,812,000 Cambodian Civil War dead : 240,000 -- 300,000 * Laotian Civil War dead : 20,000 -- 62,000 * Non-Indochinese military dead ( sum ) : 65,425 Total dead ( sum ) : 1,291,425 -- 4,211,451 For more information see Vietnam War casualties and Aircraft losses of the Vietnam War </P> * indicates approximations , see Casualties below </Td> </Tr> </Table>
<Table> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Vietnam War ( Chiến tranh Việt Nam ) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> Clockwise , from top left : U.S. combat operations in Ia Drang , ARVN Rangers defending Saigon during the 1968 Tet Offensive , two A-4C Skyhawks after the Gulf of Tonkin incident , ARVN recapture Quảng Trị during the 1972 Easter Offensive , civilians fleeing the 1972 Battle of Quảng Trị , and burial of 300 victims of the 1968 Huế Massacre . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Date </Th> <Td> 1 November 1955 -- 30 April 1975 ( 1975 - 04 - 30 ) ( 19 years , 5 months , 4 weeks and 1 day ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> South Vietnam , North Vietnam , Cambodia , Laos </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Result </Th> <Td> <P> North Vietnamese victory </P> <Ul> <Li> Withdrawal of American - led forces from Indochina </Li> <Li> Communist governments take power in South Vietnam , Cambodia and Laos </Li> <Li> South Vietnam is annexed by North Vietnam </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Territorial changes </Th> <Td> Reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam . </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Belligerents </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> South Vietnam United States South Korea Thailand Australia Philippines New Zealand Khmer Republic Laos </P> <P> Military support : Taiwan </P> Other support ( show ) <Ul> <Li> Malaysia </Li> <Li> Spain </Li> <Li> Canada </Li> <Li> Iran </Li> <Li> West Germany </Li> <Li> Brazil </Li> <Li> Japan </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <P> North Vietnam Viet Cong Khmer Rouge Pathet Lao China North Korea Military support : Soviet Union Cuba </P> Other support ( show ) <Ul> <Li> Czechoslovakia </Li> <Li> Bulgaria </Li> <Li> East Germany </Li> <Li> Romania </Li> <Li> Poland </Li> <Li> Hungary </Li> <Li> Sweden </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Commanders and leaders </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Ngô Đình Diệm † Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Cao Văn Viên Ngô Quang Trưởng John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Robert McNamara William Westmoreland Creighton Abrams Frederick C. Weyand Park Chung - hee Thanom Kittikachorn Robert Menzies Harold Holt John McEwen John Gorton William McMahon Ferdinand Marcos Keith Holyoake Jack Marshall Norman Kirk Chiang Kai - Shek ... and others </Td> <Td> Ho Chi Minh Lê Duẩn Võ Nguyên Giáp Văn Tiến Dũng Lê Trọng Tấn Phạm Văn Đồng Hoàng Văn Thái Trần Văn Trà Nguyễn Văn Linh Nguyễn Hữu Thọ ... and others </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Strength </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> ≈ 1,420,000 ( 1968 ) South Vietnam : 850,000 ( 1968 ) 1,500,000 ( 1974 -- 75 ) </P> United States : 543,000 ( April 1969 ) South Korea : 50,003 Thailand : 11,570 Australia : 7,672 Philippines : 2,061 New Zealand : 552 </Td> <Td> <P> ≈ 1,060,000 ( 1967 ) </P> North Vietnam : 690,000 ( January 1967 ) Viet Cong : 200,000 ( estimated , 1968 ) China : 170,000 ( 1967 ) North Korea : 200 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Casualties and losses </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> South Vietnam 195,000 -- 430,000 civilian dead 220,357 -- 313,000 military dead 1,170,000 wounded United States 58,318 dead ; 303,644 wounded ( including 150,341 not requiring hospital care ) South Korea 5,099 dead ; 10,962 wounded ; 4 missing Australia 521 dead ; 3,129 wounded Thailand 351 dead ; 1,358 wounded New Zealand 37 dead ; 187 wounded Taiwan 25 dead ; Philippines 9 dead ; 64 wounded </P> Total military dead : 284,668 -- 377,311 Total wounded : ≈ 1,340,000 + </Td> <Td> <P> North Vietnam & Viet Cong 65,000 civilian dead 849,018 military dead 600,000 + wounded China ≈ 1,100 dead and 4,200 wounded North Korea 14 dead </P> Total military dead : 850,132 + Total wounded : ≈ 604,200 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> <P> Vietnamese civilian dead : 627,000 -- 2,000,000 Vietnamese total dead : 966,000 -- 3,812,000 Cambodian Civil War dead : 240,000 -- 300,000 * Laotian Civil War dead : 20,000 -- 62,000 * Non-Indochinese military dead ( sum ) : 65,425 Total dead ( sum ) : 1,291,425 -- 4,211,451 For more information see Vietnam War casualties and Aircraft losses of the Vietnam War </P> * indicates approximations , see Casualties below </Td> </Tr> </Table>
when did the vietnam war started and ended
when did the vietnam war started and ended
1 November 1955 30 April 1975
1 November 1955 30 April 1975