The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three becoming communist in 1975.
50 years after the Vietnam War's end, the devastating legacy of Agent Orange remains
April 30 will mark 50 years since..