List of wars involving Vietnam

This is a list of wars involving Vietnam.

Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Conflict Vietnam and allies Opponents Result President
August Revolution
(1945)
 
Occupation of the Tonkin Palace, Hanoi, on 19 August 1945
  Việt Minh   Empire of Japan Vietnam Victory Hồ Chí Minh
Chinese troops enter Vietnam
(1945)
  Việt Minh   China Vietnam Victory
  • Chiang Kai-shek's army withdrew.
  • Vietnam Nationalist Party and Vietnam Revolutionary Allied Society withdrew from the United Government
Operation Masterdom
(1945–1946)
 
Free French Commandos in Saigon being welcome by Japanese Surrendered Personnel in November 1945
  Việt Minh   United Kingdom

  France

  Japan

Vietnam Victory
First Indochina War
(1946–1954)
 
Viet Minh troops plant their flag over the captured French headquarters at Dien Bien Phu (still from Sovietfilmographer Roman Karmen). Vietnam Victory in the Battle of Ðiện Biên Phủ
  Vietnam   France

  Burma
  Philippines
  Thailand
  United States[1]

Vietnam Victory
Vietnam War
(1955–1975)
 
U.S. Army Bell UH-1D helicopters airlift members of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment from the Filhol Rubber Plantation area to a new staging area, during Operation "Wahiawa", a search and destroy mission conducted by the 25th Infantry Division, northeast of Cu Chi, South Vietnam, 1966.
  North Vietnam   South Vietnam
  United States
  South Korea
  Australia
  New Zealand
  Thailand
  Philippines
  Kingdom of Laos
  Khmer Republic
Vietnam Victory
North Vietnamese invasion of Laos[3]
(1958–1959)
 
The Ho Chi Minh trail from the very beginning was using Vietnamese and Laotian people as seen in a captured Viet Cong's photo, circa 1959
  North Vietnam
  Pathet Lao
  Kingdom of Laos Vietnam Victory
Laotian Civil War
(1959–1975)
 
Anti-aircraft troops of the Laotian Peoples Liberation Army.
  North Vietnam
  Pathet Lao
  Kingdom of Laos
  South Vietnam
  United States
  South Korea
  Australia
  New Zealand
  Thailand
  Philippines
  Khmer Republic
Vietnam Victory
Cambodian Civil War
(1967–1975)
 
U.S. tanks entering a town in Cambodia in 1970.
  North Vietnam
  Khmer Rouge
  Khmer Republic
  Kingdom of Laos
  South Vietnam
  United States
  South Korea
Vietnam Victory

Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Conflict Vietnam and allies Opponents Result President
FULRO insurgency
(1964–1992)
  Vietnam   FULRO

  China
  United States[4]  Libya
(1970–1987)
  France

Vietnam Victory Tôn Đức Thắng
Insurgency in Laos
(1975–2021)[5]
  Vietnam
  Laos
  Hmong insurgents
  Thailand
  United States
  China (until 1988)[6]
Vietnam Victory
  • 2007 Hmong-led coup attempt against the Lao government foiled; alleged plotters tried and exonerated in the U.S.
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
(1978–1989)
 
Rooms of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. Million of Innocent Cambodian were killed by Khmer Rouge
  Vietnam   Khmer Rouge
  China
  Malaysia[7]
  North Korea
  Romania[8][9][10]
  Singapore[7]
  Thailand
  United Kingdom[11][12]
  United States[13][14]
  United Nations
Vietnam Victory
Vietnamese border raids in Thailand
(1979–1989)
  Vietnam   Thailand
  Khmer Rouge
ASEAN[15]

  China

Vietnam Victory
Sino-Vietnamese War
(1979)
  Vietnam   China Vietnam Victory
  • Continued Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia until 1989
  • Vietnamese authorities continue and increase their expulsions of overseas Chinese from Vietnam
  • Continuation of border clashes between China and Vietnam until 1991
  • Vietnam success in to prevent Chinese troops from entering Hanoi
Sino-Vietnamese conflicts
(1979–1991)
  Vietnam   China Vietnam Victory
  • The conflict subsided without the outbreak of full-scale war
  • Normalization of relations between China and Vietnam in 1991
Thai–Laotian Border War
(1987–1988)
  Vietnam
  Laos
  Thailand Vietnam Victory Võ Chí Công
Russian in the Bạch Long Vĩ Island Conflict
(1992)
  Vietnam   Russia Vietnam Victory
  • Russian escape the Bạch Long Vĩ Island

List Of Wars Involving Vietnam Media

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