In the 1950's the United States, began to send armed forces over to Vietnam, for the following 20 plus years the ongoing war would create major tensions throughout U.S. History. Nearly 3 million U.S. service men and women were sent thousands of miles away from home, to fight for a rather questionable cause. In total nearly 2 and a half million people from both the U.S. and Vietnam would die in a fight that had …showed first 75 words of 749 total…

…showed last 75 words of 749 total…citizens. <Tab/>After great efforts by the U.S to withdraw, and the establishment of a cease-fire in January 1973, American soldiers began leaving Vietnam for good. The North Vietnamese had finally conquered South Vietnam in 1975, totally ignoring the cease-fire and in July 1976, North and South Vietnam were now united as a single communist state. It had cost an estimated 2 million lives and the injury or disablement of many millions of others.