CCR ~ Bad Moon Rising - French and the Viet Minh.

This video contains real footage taken during the Vietnam War that has been edited. Viewer discretion is advised. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIETNAM WAR facts. The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến Tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, 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 officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; South Vietnam was supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand, and other anti-communist allies. The war, considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some, lasted 19 years, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973, and included the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975. The conflict arose from the First Indochina War between the French and the communist-led Viet Minh. The French quit the attempted recolonization of Indochina in 1954, and the US assumed financial and military support for the South Vietnamese state. North Vietnam had also invaded Laos in the mid-1950s in support of insurgents, establishing the Ho Chi Minh Trail to supply and reinforce the Việt Cong. U.S. involvement escalated under...