American intervention in Vietnam (Vietnam War)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/American_intervention_in_Vietnam_(Vietnam_War)
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:military
gptkbp:alliedWith gptkb:Australia
gptkb:Philippines
gptkb:South_Korea
gptkb:Thailand
gptkbp:casualtiesUnion over 58,000
gptkbp:casualtiesVietnamese over 2 million
gptkbp:cause gptkb:domino_theory
containment of communism
support for South Vietnam government
gptkbp:conflict guerrilla warfare
conventional warfare
gptkbp:endDate 1973
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label American intervention in Vietnam (Vietnam War)
gptkbp:involvedCountry gptkb:United_States
South Vietnam
gptkbp:legacy gptkb:Vietnam_Syndrome
gptkb:War_Powers_Act
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
gptkbp:location gptkb:Cambodia
gptkb:Laos
gptkb:Vietnam
gptkbp:mainOperation gptkb:Operation_Ranch_Hand
Operation Rolling Thunder
Tet Offensive
gptkbp:mediaCoverage extensive television coverage
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Pentagon_Papers_leak
gptkb:Kent_State_shootings
My Lai Massacre
Paris Peace Accords
gptkbp:notableFigure gptkb:General_William_Westmoreland
Ho Chi Minh
Nguyen Van Thieu
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:anti-war_movement_in_the_United_States
gptkbp:opposingAlly gptkb:China
gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:opposingCountry North Vietnam
Viet Cong
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Vietnam_War
gptkbp:presidentDuringTerm gptkb:Dwight_D._Eisenhower
gptkb:John_F._Kennedy
gptkb:Lyndon_B._Johnson
gptkb:Richard_Nixon
gptkbp:result Fall of Saigon
U.S. withdrawal
Unification of Vietnam under communist rule
gptkbp:startDate 1955
gptkbp:troopPeak 1969
gptkbp:troopPeakNumber over 500,000
gptkbp:uses gptkb:Agent_Orange
napalm
cluster bombs
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Failed_invasions_of_Vietnam
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6