Rareboy,
I decided to look at google and it did have a long explanation explanation at Wikipedia. I dont think google even bothered trying to explain it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
Contents
1 Names
2 Background
3 Transition period
4 Diệm era, 1954–63
4.1 Rule
4.2 Insurgency in the South, 1954–60
4.2.1 North Vietnamese involvement
5 Kennedy's escalation, 1961–63
5.1 Ousting and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm
6 Johnson's escalation, 1963–69
6.1 Gulf of Tonkin incident
6.2 Bombing of Laos
6.3 The 1964 Offensive
6.4 American ground war
6.5 Tet Offensive
7 Nixon Doctrine and Vietnamization, 1969–72
7.1 Nuclear threats and diplomacy
7.2 Hanoi's war strategy
7.3 U.S. domestic controversies
7.4 Collapsing U.S. morale
7.5 ARVN taking the lead and U.S. ground-force withdrawal
7.6 Cambodia
7.7 Laos
7.8 Easter Offensive and Paris Peace Accords, 1972
8 U.S. exit and final campaigns, 1973–75
8.1 Campaign 275
8.2 Final North Vietnamese offensive
8.3 Fall of Saigon
9 Opposition to U.S. involvement, 1964–73
10 Involvement of other countries
10.1 Pro-Hanoi
10.1.1 China
10.1.2 Soviet Union
10.1.3 Czechoslovakia
10.1.4 North Korea
10.1.5 Cuba
10.1.6 Other Eastern Bloc countries
10.2 Pro-Saigon
10.2.1 South Korea
10.2.2 Thailand
10.2.3 Australia and New Zealand
10.2.4 Philippines
10.2.5 Taiwan
10.2.6 Brazil
10.3 Neutral and non-belligerent nations
10.3.1 Canada and the ICC
11 United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FULRO)
12 War crimes
12.1 South Vietnamese, Korean and American
12.2 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong
13 Women
13.1 American nurses
13.2 Vietnamese soldiers
13.3 Journalists
14 Black servicemen
15 Weapons
15.1 Radio communications
15.2 Extent of U.S. bombings
16 Aftermath
16.1 Events in Southeast Asia
16.2 Effect on the United States
16.2.1 Views on the war
16.2.2 Cost of the war
16.2.3 Impact on the U.S. military
16.3 Effects of U.S. chemical defoliation
16.4 Casualties
16.5 In popular culture
16.5.1 Myths
16.6 Commemoration
17 See also
17.1 General
18 Annotations
19 Notes
20 References
20.1 Secondary sources
20.2 Primary sources
20.3 Historiography and memory
21 Further reading
22 External links
Wasnt it Kate Middleton who lewt the World know, or at least the men, that a woman doesn not get back into shape. She looks pregnant even after having the baby. Lets see if that photo is out there. Yup. Kind of creepy. She is 'pregnant' but shes holding the baby
I guess my other question is about the Bay of Pigs. Hopefully, it is less complicated than Vietnam. What is the importance of the Bay of Pigs?
My intention is to not ask a certain line of questions regarding war and history.
Maybe someone will ask "how many lick does it take to get to the middle of a tootise roll pop?" (It was called tootsie roll pop?)