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|}The '''CATA LOVES ARCHIE 4Vietnam EVA!!!War''' or '''Second Indochina War''' {{fn|1}} was a conflict between the [[North Vietnam|Democratic Republic of Vietnam]] (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the [[National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam|National Liberation Front]] (NLF, or "[[Viet Cong]]") against the [[South Vietnam|Republic of Vietnam]] (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies&mdash;notably the [[United States]] military in support of the South, with American combat troops committed from [[1965]] to [[1973]].

After [[France]]'s attempted [[colonialism|recolonization]] of [[French Indochina|Indochina]] was defeated in [[1954]] by the [[Viet Minh]] at the battle of [[Dien Bien Phu]], the country was partitioned in two by a [[DMZ (Vietnam)|Demilitarized Zone or DMZ]] after the Geneva Conference. Each part of the modern day Vietnam became controlled by separate governments with distinctly different ideologies and political bases. The scheduled elections for the unification of the country never took place. Instead, the Vietnam War began as a civil war&mdash;fought to determine the status of Vietnam as either a unified nation or as one partitioned indefinitely into two independent states, each supported by rival Superpowers (as after the [[Korean War]]). Fighting began in [[1957]], and with U.S. and [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]-[[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] involvement and support, it would steadily escalate and spill over into the neighboring Indochinese countries of [[Cambodia]] and [[Laos]].