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What does Vietnam mean?

Vietnam

a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945 a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States

Synonyms Vietnam synonyms

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Examples Vietnam examples

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Simple sentences

Both men opposed the war in Vietnam.
The capital of Vietnam is Hanoi.
I didn't know that Mr. Williams fought in the Vietnam War.
My uncle is a veteran of the Vietnam War.
He died fighting in the Vietnam War.
China shares borders with Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Mongolia and Russia.
The Vietnam War is known in Vietnam, and quite appropriately, as the American War.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial honors U.S. service members who fought in the Vietnam War.
My father died in Vietnam.
The students protested against the Vietnam war.
Is Haruki Murakami popular in Vietnam as well?
Thousands of students demonstrated against the Vietnam War.
Tim's uncle was a machine gunner on a helicopter in Vietnam.
Americans call it the Vietnam War; the Vietnamese call it the American War.
What happened in Vietnam was like a bad dream.
Tom knew a man whose father was a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War.
In the Cold War era, Soviet naval and air bases existed in Cuba and Vietnam.
Hochiminh City is the largest city in Vietnam.
My father was a pacifist who refused to fight in the Vietnam War.
How many innocent people were killed in Vietnam?
Tom fought in Vietnam.

Movie subtitles

Was it because a war in Annam, modern-day Vietnam, turned out to be more expensive than anyone had expected?
Mr. President, the secretary of state is in Vietnam. The secretary of defense is in Laos, the vice president is in Mexico City.
I've got it. The Vietnam War.
Or else. like in Vietnam. we'll strip you. put you in a bathtub full of napalm. and set it on fire.
In Vietnam, the Da Nang base, a major US stronghold, was attacked by the Viet Cong.
Just look at Cuba or Vietnam or Israel.
I hear there's this Vietnam thing coming.
Sartre suggested that the Tribunal apply the Nuremburg convictions to the war crimes in Vietnam.
USA GET OUT OF VIETNAM!
You've to Vietnam before.
Vietnam?
Yes, Vietnam.
Tonight; South Vietnam.
John Kennedy sadly declared that he couldn't see the end of the Vietnam Tunnel.
Did a lot of trafficking with North Vietnam, North Korea and China.
Mr. President, the secretary of state is in Vietnam.
The Vietnam war.
Or else, like in Vietnam we'll take all your clothes off and put you in a bathtub full of napalm.
Consider Cuba, Vietnam, Israel.
I don't know whether to sign him with the Dodgers or send him to Vietnam.
I've parachuted behind enemy lines in Vietnam.
Signatures and donations to stop the Vietnam war!
No more Vietnam war!
Signatures and donations for Vietnam!
Between us, we've had 3 tours of duty in South Vietnam which makes us experts. So we've been ordered to volunteer to answer questions here for you today.
My paper believes we shouldn't be in Vietnam.
Her husband, who's been fighting in Vietnam, died a week ago.
The Algerian War, the Vietnam War, the war in Biafra.
I know. The Vietnam war.
There's no reason why soft breasts and thighs should keep her from killing everybody to stay free or defend herself. Consider Cuba, Vietnam, Israel.
Vietnam, South Africa or what?
How big is Cardinal of Vietnam?
What do you think about the war in Vietnam, Johnson?
Vietnam is at war.
Look at this Vietnam strife.
The war in Vietnam, sir.
Do you think that the war in Vietnam was unpredictable? Not the war itself. But what it has revealed about the Vietnamese people.
Are you a communist? I don't think one has to be one in order to admire Vietnam, sir.
Oh, I see him from Vietnam in his combat jacket, ducking under the bullets.

News and current affairs

It was destroyed by the inflation of the Vietnam era and the oil-price shocks of the 1970s.
China, Vietnam, India: all three violated virtually every rule in the neoliberal guidebook, even as they moved in a more market-oriented direction.
Will it turn inward, as it did after its defeat in Vietnam three decades ago?
For example, a large, modern tank army is a powerful resource if a war is fought in a desert, but not if it is fought in a swamp - as America discovered in Vietnam.
It is highly unlikely that the US will react after Iraq as it did after Vietnam.
Or will America's apparent inward turn be as brief as it was following Vietnam?
History suggests that, in fits and starts, Iraq, like Vietnam and Lebanon, will find itself able to sort out its own affairs.
Then the deep divisions over Vietnam and civil rights, combined with a surge of consumerism and advertising, seemed to end an era of shared sacrifice for the common good.
Above all, the term was an effort to communicate to Americans, accustomed to waging war with speed and decisiveness (and insistent on it since Vietnam), the long-term sacrifice and commitment needed to win a war of survival.
After the Vietnam War, Jimmy Carter hoped to make a break with established US policy.
Authoritarian party-states, such as China and Vietnam, survive, but not through commitment to communism.
American objectives could not be achieved in Vietnam.
Whatever one calls it, the new policy approach is all about China, with America bolstering alliances and friendships with countries around China's periphery, including India, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, and South Korea.
The US is now courting Vietnam as well, and the two countries are even negotiating a civilian nuclear deal.
Deng Xiaoping's economic opening followed China's bloody - and failed - invasion of Vietnam in 1978.
In this respect, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) constitutes an edifying example.
While Lebanon and Somalia remain damaged and failed states, respectively, regional and domestic factors have cauterized the consequences of America's retreat from Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
But the US saw things very differently in the 1960's, when the ghosts of Munich hovered over Vietnam's jungles.
Although the US bombed northeastern Cambodia intensely throughout the Vietnam War years, it had no stomach for a ground commitment there.
Rather than the dominos falling following America's retreat from Saigon in 1975, a Vietnam-Cambodian War ensued.
This in turn stimulated China's unsuccessful intervention in North Vietnam.

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