The Vietnam War, also called the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as the War of Resistance against the United States, was a military conflict fought between 1955 and 1975 to prevent the reunification of Vietnam under a communist government. In this 2-day seminar you will learn all the details of this important war, from the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and the French defeat in the First Indochina War. Going through the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 and the North American intervention in the conflict, with several and important battles against the Vietcong and the regular forces of North Vietnam, until the withdrawal in 1975 from Saigon, which would put an end to the presence of the USA in Vietnam and would end the Second Indochina War.