Vietnam

or Vi·et Nam

[ vee-et-nahm, -nam, vyet-, vee-it- ]

noun

1. Official_name Socialist Republic of Vietnam. a country in Southeast Asia, comprising the former states of Annam, Tonkin, and Cochinchina: formerly part of French Indochina; divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War but now reunified. 126,104 sq. mi. (326,609 sq. km). : Hanoi. Compare North Vietnam, South Vietnam.
2. Vietnam War.

Vietnam

/ ˌvjɛtˈnæm /

noun

1. a republic in SE Asia: an ancient empire, conquered by France in the 19th century; occupied by Japan (1940–45) when the Communist-led Vietminh began resistance operations that were continued against restored French rule after 1945. In 1954 the country was divided along the 17th parallel, establishing North Vietnam (under the Vietminh) and South Vietnam (under French control), the latter becoming the independent Republic of Vietnam in 1955. From 1959 the country was dominated by war between the Communist Vietcong, supported by North Vietnam, and the South Vietnamese government; increasing numbers of US forces were brought to the aid of the South Vietnamese army until a peace agreement (1973) led to the withdrawal of US troops; further fighting led to the eventual defeat of the South Vietnamese government in March 1975 and in 1976 an elected National Assembly proclaimed the reunification of the country. Official language: Vietnamese. Religion: Buddhist majority. Currency: dong. Capital: Hanoi. Pop: 92 477 857 (2013 est). Area: 331 041 sq km (127 816 sq miles) Official nameSocialist Republic of Vietnam

Vietnam

1. Republic in Southeast Asia , bordered by Cambodia and Laos to the west, China to the north, and the South China Sea (an arm of the Pacific Ocean ) to the east and south.

Notes

The Geneva Conference of 1954 divided Vietnam into North Vietnam, controlled by communists , and South Vietnam, controlled by noncommunists.

In the Vietnam War of 1954–1975, South Vietnam, which was aided by the United States, fought communist insurgents, who were aided by North Vietnam. The war ended when the communists overran the south in 1975. The country was reunified in 1976.

American involvement in the Vietnam War was strongly protested in the United States.

Between 1978 and 1979, Vietnam invaded Cambodia and installed a puppet government.

Vietnam was under the control of France from the second half of the nineteenth century until World War II , when it was occupied by the Japanese. The country became an autonomous state in 1946. France's attempts to reassert control resulted in the French Indochina War (1946–1954), in which the French were defeated.

Great numbers of Vietnamese refugees, known as boat people, fled the country in the aftermath of the war.

Example Sentences

Army veteran John Hoefen, 73, served in Vietnam and has a 100% disability rating from the VA for Parkinson’s disease related to Agent Orange exposure.

From Time

Whether it be me because I got a B, or whether it be my sister, because she was against the war in Vietnam and he wasn’t.

From Ozy

In Vietnam, India and Brazil, people with higher English speaking proficiency can earn about two to three times more than their colleagues, she said.

From TechCrunch

You know, when I was in Vietnam, we were pretty much under constant mortar and rocket attack.

From Ozy

Vann returned to Vietnam as a civilian adviser and ended up commanding the military operations of an entire province.

From Washington Post

Compared with neighbors Myanmar, Vietnam, and Laos, Cambodia appears to have a blossoming civil society.

From The Daily Beast

Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.

From The Daily Beast

Same with my uncle and cousins when their planes landed from Vietnam.

From The Daily Beast

One of the most horrific episodes of the Vietnam War is being made into a government-funded opera.

From The Daily Beast

In Vietnam, Lewis was advisor to a Vietnamese infantry unit, whose nickname for him was “Captain of Many Kilos.”

From The Daily Beast

They talk about how badly the Vietnam veterans were treated when they came back, but I think what happened to us was just as bad.

From Project Gutenberg

The Vietnam War is a grim reminder of the political nature of conflict and how our power was once outflanked.

From Project Gutenberg

The experiences that this study group collectively had in Vietnam makes this concern very strongly held.

From Project Gutenberg

Policy statements have also consistently voiced support for the communist effort in South Vietnam.

From Project Gutenberg

To have done so might have averted at least some of the racial turmoil visited on the services in the Vietnam era.

From Project Gutenberg