major+battles

Major Battles - Hamburger Hill (400 U.S. casualties.1969), Tonkin gulf crises- (battleships fighting usa and north Viet Cong. 1964 major turning point in the cold war)



Battle for Khe Sanh (longest battle of the war. 1968),

Tet Offensive- a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States), Dien Bien Phu (the battle that france was defeated and the americans joined the war)



__**Fatalities**__ - 2 million civilians on both sides 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died 58,200 of American troops. 3 million deaths total. ***************  The U.S. military has estimated that between 200,000 and 250,000 South vietnamese soldiers died in the war.