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Vietnam War en · PROPN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (historical) The war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975 between South Vietnam (backed by the United States and SEATO) and North Vietnam aiding the South Vietnamese communist guerrilla army known as the Vietcong (supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union) for the total communist control of Vietnam as one state.
   • The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other. 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:

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Synonyms

Second Indochina War

Translations (35)

nl Vietnamoorlog (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · sk Vietnamská vojna (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · mr व्हियेत्नाम युद्ध (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · cmn 越戰 /越战 (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · bn ভিয়েতনাম যুদ্ধ (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · ug ۋيېتنام ئۇرۇشى (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · cmn 越南戰爭 /越南战争 (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · km សង្គ្រាមវៀតណាម (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · pt guerra do Vietname (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · pt guerra do Vietnã (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · fo Vjetnamkríggið (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · ca guerra del Vietnam (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · ja ベトナム戦争 (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · sv Vietnamkriget (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · it guerra del Vietnam (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · is Víetnamstríðið (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · ko 베트남 전쟁 (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · vi chiến tranh Đông Dương lần thứ hai (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · ru война́ во Вьетна́ме (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · vi kháng chiến chống Mĩ (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · de Vietnamkrieg (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · id Perang Vietnam (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · vi cuộc chiến Việt Nam (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · vi chiến tranh chống Mĩ (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · hi वियतनाम युद्ध (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · hu vietnami háború (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · es guerra de Vietnam (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · da Vietnamkrigen (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · gl guerra do Vietnam (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · fi Vietnamin sota (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · vi kháng chiến chống cộng sản (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · vi chiến tranh Việt Nam (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · fr guerre du Vietnam (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · pl wojna wietnamska (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975) · vi cuộc chiến bảo vệ tự do (war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975)