Major Proxy Wars: The Vietnam War

During the late 1940s, political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were rapidly increasing. The Democratic United States gave several countries in Western Europe financial aid, while the Communist Soviet Union established communist regimes in Eastern Europe. The expansion of these opposing ideologies caused a ‘cold’ war to begin, in which neither belligerent directly fought each other but competed to spread their political ideologies around the world. However, the conflict resulted in wars that occurred outside of America and the Soviet Union. One of the major proxy wars was the Vietnam War, which was a conflict between Soviet-supported North Vietnam and American-supported South Vietnam. Over time, the war became heavily