eighteen years, men and women served and fought in the war. Even

though men took most of the acknowledgment in this war, women

played a tremendous role as well. Their remembrance was not as

well-known as the men who served in the war. Almost 30,000 women

served in the Vietnam War, as both medical and civilian workers. There

were many groups and organizations that provided them a spot in the

The Vietnam War was the longest war the United States had

ever participated in. The war began in 1957 and ended in 1975. North

Vietnam were communists, South Vietnam were non-communists. The

north wanted to overthrow the South’s government. The United States

and South Vietnamese army tried to stop them but did not succeed.

The Vietnamese Communists called the war “a war of national

liberation.” The communists saw the war as additional attempt by

another foreign power to rule Vietnam. China and the Soviet Union,

which were large communist regions gave the Vietnamese communists

The war had many stages. The years from 1957 to 1963 “North

Vietnam aided rebels opposed to the government of South Vietnam,

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