Asia Pacific 51 years ago today: Vietnam War (01 Apr 1968) https://buff.ly/2UgMkVC At the end of the First Indochina War, Vietnam had been divided between a Communist North and a pro-Western South. From 1959, North Vietnam began infiltrating the South with the support of the Viet Cong, South Vietnamese guerrillas, as the part of its effort to unify the country under Communist rule. In response, the US, which had established a presence in the region when the French departed, moved in with its forces in an attempt to prop up the South Vietnamese regime. #asiapacific #history #welovemaps #map #1960s #1968 #april #april1 #chinesehistory #coldwar #japanesehistory #indochinawar #northvietnam #usinvietnam #southvietnam #unitedstates #vietnamwar #maps #vietcong #todayinhistory #historytoday #historyteacher #historygeek #historybuff #historynerd #asianhistory #modernhistory #20thcentury #worldhistory #uswar (at Sài Gòn) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvtAatOApsL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cxw19m7ryxe4