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The Second Indochina War, called the Vietnam War in America and the Resistance War Against America in Vietnam, lasted for twenty years from 1955 to 1975.
In America we are mostly taught about the war’s divisive role in American society. The bad assumptions the government made when entering it. And sometimes its terrible effects on its combatants - the chemical warfare and the napalm. Sometimes they will show a 1970s movie or something.
American schools don’t really talk all that much about the other side. How the Vietnamese fought. Their strategic goals. Anything really. And they certainly don't teach how Communist China helped the Vietnamese win that war against the Americans. And just how vital that help was.
The history of Sino-Vietnamese relations is a long and varied one. But the Vietnam War marked a high point of Sino-Vietnamese Communist friendship. The time when Asian Communist states worked together to defeat the evil imperialist United States.
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