Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yaƙin Vietnam ya kasance yaƙin da aka yi tsakanin 1955 da 1975 a ƙasa a Kudancin Vietnam da yankunan da ke iyaka da Kambodiya da Laos ("duba" Yaƙin Asirin
) da kuma a cikin bom na dabarun ("duba" Operation Rolling Thunder) na Arewacin Vietnam. Masu ba da shawara na Amurka sun zo a ƙarshen 1950s don taimakawa RVN (Jamhuriyar Vietnam) ta yaƙi da 'yan tawayen Kwaminisanci da aka sani da "Viet Cong". Babban aikin soja na Amurka ya fara ne a cikin 1964, bayan da Majalisa ta ba Shugaba Lyndon B. Johnson cikakken amincewa ga shugaban kasa don yin amfani da karfi a cikin Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.