What was the name for the Vietnam war?

Answer 1

The name for what is commonly known in the US as "The Vietnam War" is still contested. The problem is perspective and the different versions are often unsatisfactory and are politically motivated.

Some people designate the war fought between the French and Vietnamese as the 1st Indochinese War and then the war between North and South Vietnam as the 2nd Indochinese War. These terms are more accurate in that they demonstrate that the fighting took place in all of Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos).

In Vietnam the war between North and South is often called the American War, where as in the US, people term it the Vietnam War. Both are widely inaccurate and fail to take into account the fact that a number of other countries participated on both sides of the conflict.

Also, what is termed as a civil war between North and South can also be viewed as a proxy war, with Soviet and Chinese support of the North and American intervention in the South. Most historians would agree that the war may not have occurred as it did without direct American involvement after the partioning of Vietnam in 1954.

Answer 2

The "Second Indochina War", "The Nam", "The War in Southeast Asia", "The War We Couldn't Win", "The War We Lost", "The War Against Communist Aggression", "In Country", "The War To Win the Hearts and Minds", "America's Longest War", "The Hot Battle of the Cold War", "The War in the Nam", and the "Viet Nam War" and "Vietnam War."

Answer 3

According to the Adelaide Advertiser of September 22 2007, The American War.

Answer 4

the hot war in the cold war

by the way america lost but wan the cold war itself if ya wanted to know