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Vietnam War
- began November 1, 1955 Result: North Vietnamese victory
- ended April 30, 1975
- began November 1, 1955
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On 30 March North Vietnam launched the Nguyễn Huệ or Easter Offensive, a massive conventional invasion of South Vietnam. This led to a large increase in U.S. airpower and airstrikes to defend South Vietnam and a resumption of bombing of North Vietnam.
On Good Friday, March 30, 1972, more than 25,000 North Vietnamese soldiers, backed by state-of-the-art Soviet tanks, artillery, and mobile antiaircraft missile platforms, poured across the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Vietnams.
The Easter Offensive, also known as the 1972 spring–summer offensive (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Xuân–Hè 1972) by North Vietnam, or the Red Fiery Summer (Mùa hè đỏ lửa) as romanticized in South Vietnamese literature, was a military campaign conducted by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN, the regular army of North Vietnam) against ...
- 30 March – 22 October 1972
- South Vietnam
- Both sides claim victory, PAVN takes control of 10% of South Vietnamese territory
Mar 31, 2022 · The March 30 attack marked the opening of the North Vietnamese Spring-Summer Offensive of 1972 ( Chien dich Xuan he 1972 ). The offensive consisted of a three-pronged assault that hit South Vietnam in its northern, central and southern regions.
The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was a major conflict of the Cold War.
- 1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975, (19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)
Sep 13, 2017 · • December 1972: President Nixon orders the launch of the most intense air offense of the war in Operation Linebacker. The attacks, concentrated between Hanoi and Haiphong, drop roughly 20,000 ...
Operation Linebacker: The Sea-Power Factor. In the summer of 1972, a massive deployment of U.S. naval and air forces was unleashed on North Vietnam, rolling back the enemy’s Easter Offensive and paving the way for the Paris Peace Accords.
