Do you know anything about the Vietnam conflict? Well, the Vietnam conflict was a disagreement between North and South Vietnam. In Vietnam, this conflict is identified as the American War (Vietnamese Chiê´n Tranh Chô´ng My~ Cu´u Nuo´c, which translates into English as "War against the Americans and to Save the Nation").The conflict Vietnamese was also known as the Second Indochina War. It happened in 1954 and ended in 1975. It was between the communist forces of North Vietnam and the Soviet Union and the non-communist forces of South Vietnam. Communist forces were supported by China and the Soviet Union; were supported by the United States. The Vietnam conflict is the source of many quarrels in the United States. The Vietnamese conflict took place in South Vietnam; it was also fought in the near vicinity of Laos and Cambodia. One of the things to understand about the war is that it was very progressive. It started very small with a group of “advisers” under President Dwight Eisenhower and ended with more than 2.5 million U.S. troops mobilized. Throughout the war, they committed numerous human rights violations, and even afterward. Both the North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese had large numbers of political prisoners; many people were killed or tormented. In 1970, two Americans visited South Vietnam and discovered the existence of “tiger cages.” The tiger cages were small prison cells; it was used to torture South Vietnamese political prisoners. After the war, champions of the Vietnamese conflict, including firing squads, torture, and concentration camps, led to the emigration of thousands of Vietnamese. Many of these refugees fled by boat, earning them the nickname “boat people”. They emigrated to the United States...... middle of paper ......e imprisoned. Saigon was immediately renamed “Ho Chi Minh City”. Ho Chi Minh City was named in honor of the former president of North Vietnam. Communist rule persists in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and continues today. It's been about 35 years since the Vietnam War ended. The legacy of the Vietnam conflict among Vietnam veterans and their families was rarely discussed. The US Veterans Administration has documented higher rates of birth defects and miscarriages, depression, suicide, cancers, alcoholism, prostate cancer, respiratory cancers, multiple melanoma, type II diabetes, Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, soft tissue sarcoma, chloracne, cutaneous porphyria. -tarda, peripheral neurophysiology and spin abifida in children as well as many other physical effects of herbicide poisoning have been ignored for a long time, many lives have been shortened.