vietnam war
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975 between South Vietnam (backed by the United States and SEATO) and North Vietnam aiding the South Vietnamese communist guerrilla army known as the Vietcong (supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union) for the total communist control of Vietnam as one state.
Example Sentences
- "The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other."
Inflected Forms
the Vietnam War (canonical)
Synonyms
Second Indochina War